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Systematic Theology

Recommended literature

Theological dictionaries and compendia:

  • Akin, Daniel L.; Dockery, David S.; Finn, Nathan A.; Morgan, Christopher W.: A Handbook of Theology. Nashville: B&H Publishing Group, 2023.

  • Allen, Michael: The New Cambridge companion to Christian doctrine. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

  • Betz, Hans Dieter (ed.). Religion past & present: encyclopedia of theology and religion. Leiden: Brill, 2007-. = Betz, Hans Dieter. Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Handwörterbuch für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft. 4., völlig neu bearb. Aufl. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr Paul Siebeck, 1998-2007.

  • Byrne, Peter A Houlden, Leslie. Companion encyclopedia of theology. London: Routledge, 1995.

  • Ford, David F. The modern theologians: an introduction to Christian theology in the twentieth century 1–2. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989–1990.

  • Gunton, Colin E.: The Cambridge Companion to christian doctrine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

  • Kasper, Walter – Buchberger, Michael. Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche. 3. Aufl. 1993 – 2001. Freiburg im Breisgau, Herder, 2009.

  • Müller, Gerhard a Balz, Horst (ed.): Theologische Realenzyklopädie. 36 svazků, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1976–2004.


Sources of doctrinal texts: 

  • Denzinger, Henricus / Hünermann, Peter: Enchiridion Symbolorum, Definitionum et Declarationum de Reus Fidei et Morum, 954  stran, 45. vyd., Freiburg: Herder 2017. = Denzinger, Henricus: The Sources of Catholic Dogma, 30. vyd., přel. R. J. Deferrari, Fitzwilliam, NH: Loreto Publications 1955. = http://denzinger.patristica.net/

  • Kinzig, Wolfram: Faith in formulae: a collection of early Christian creeds and creed-related texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

  • The Book of Concord, ed. Robert Kolb and Timothy J. Wengert, Minneapolis: Fortress Press 2000.

  • McGrath, Alister E. The Christian theology reader. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.

  • Migne, Jacques Paul: Patrologia graeca - https://patristica.net/graeca/

  • Migne, Jacques Paul: Patrologia latina - https://patristica.net/latina/

  • Niesel, Wilhelm (vyd.): Bekenntnisschriften und Kirchenordnungen der nach Gottes Wort reformierten Kirche, 1938


History of doctrine and theology 

  • Bavinck, Herman.; Pass, Bruce R. A De Kok, Gert: The Foremost Problems of Contemporary Dogmatics: On Faith, Knowledge, and the Christian Tradition. Bellingham: Faithlife Corporation, 2025.

  • Berkhof, Louis. The History of Christian Doctrines. Reprinted 2002

  • Harnack, Adolf: History of Dogma 1-7, reprint New York 1961.

  • Hodgson, Peter Crafts – King, Richard H.: Christian theology: an introduction to its traditions and tasks. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.

  • Kinzig, Wolfram: A History of Early Christian Creeds, Berlin: de Gruyter 2024.

  • Lohse, Bernhard. A Short History of Christian Doctrine. Rev., American ed, Fortress Press, 1985.  

  • Pelikan, Jaroslav: The Christian Tradition. A History of the Development of Doctrine 1-5, The University  of Chicago Press 1971-1989.   

  • Placher, William C. A history of Christian theology: an introduction. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1983.


Sources for the old-protestant doctrinal texts:

  • Heppe, Heinrich: Die Dogmatik der evangelisch-reformierten Kirche, dargestellt und nach den Quellen belegt, 1861

  • Hirsch, Emanuel: Hilfsbuch zum Studium der Dogmatik. Die  Dogmatik der Reformatoren und der altevangelischen Lehrer quellenmässig  belegt und verdeutscht, 1937

  • Schmidt, Heinrich: Die Dogmatik der lutherischen Kirche, dargestellt und aus den Quellen belegt, 1847

  


Textbooks of theological encyclopedia (overview of theological disciplines):

  • Ebeling, Gerhard: Studium der Theologie. Eine  enzyklopädische Orientierung, 190 stran, UTB 446, Tübingen 1975.  = The Study of Theology, London 1979.


Introductions to theology:

  • Barth, Karl. Evangelical Theology : An Introduction. T & T Clark, 2019

  • Berkhof, Hendrikus – Woudstra, Sierd. Christian faith: an introduction to the study of the faith. Rev. ed. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1986.

  • Gunton, Colin E.: The Christian faith: an introduction to Christian doctrine. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

  • Hodgson, Peter Crafts. Christian faith: a brief introduction. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001.

  • McGrath, Alister E.: Christian theology: an introduction. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.

  • McGrath, Alister E.: Theology: The Basic Readings, 3rd ed., Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2018.

  • McGrath, Alister E.: Theology: The Basics, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2025.

  • Pannenberg, Wolfhart. An introduction to systematic theology. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1991.

  • Putman, Rhyne R.: The method of Christian theology: a basic introduction. Nashville, Tennessee: B & H Academic, 2021.

  • Rahner, Karl, and William V. Dych. Foundations of Christian Faith : An Introduction to the Idea of Christianity. Crossroad, 2019.

  • Sölle, Dorothee – Bowden, John Stephen. Thinking about God: an introduction to theology. London: SCM, 1990.

  • Thomas, Owen C. – Wondra, Ellen K.: Introduction to Theology, 3rd ed., Morehouse, 2002.


The Apostle’s Creed and similar introductions:

  • Lochman, Jan Milič. The Faith We Confess : An Ecumenical Dogmatics. T & T Clark, 1984.

  • Lochman, Jan Milič. Signposts to Freedom: The Ten Commandments and Christian Ethics. Augsburg Pub. House, 1982.

  • Lochman, Jan Milič. The Lord’s Prayer. W.B. Eerdmans, 1990.

  • Pokorný, Petr. The Genesis of Christology : Foundations for a Theology of the New Testament. T. & T. Clark, 1987.

  • Barth, Karl: Credo,  München 1935.

  • McGrath, Alister E.: Affirming Your Faith. Exploring the Apostles’ Creed, Leicester 1991.

  • Pannenberg, Wolfhart: Das Glaubensbekenntnis ausgelegt  und verantwortet vor den Fragen der Gegenwart, 1972, 5th ed. Gütersloh 1990. = The Apostles’ Creed in the Light of Today´s Questions, London 1988.


One-volume dogmatics:

  • Guthrie, Shirley C.: Christian Doctrine, 2nd ed. Atlanta 1994.  

  • Härle, Wilfried: Outline of Christian Doctrine, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 2015.

  • Leonhardt, Rochus: Grundinformation Dogmatik. 4. Auflage. Göttingen 2009.

  • Migliore, Daniel L.: Faith seeking understanding: an introduction to christian theology. Grand Rapids: W.B. Eerdmans, 1991.


Classical doctrinal conceptions:

  • Barth, Karl: Die Kirchliche Dogmatik I/1-IV/4, Zürich 1932–1970; = Church Dogmatics, 14 vols, Edinburgh 1936–1977. = Dogmatique, 27 vols, Genéve 1953–1980.

  • Calvin, Iohannes: Institutio christianae religionis 1–2 (1559), ed. August Tholuck, Berlin: Apud Guilelmum thome, 1846. = Unterricht in der christlichen Religion, ed. Otto Weber, 6th ed. Neukirchener 1997. = Institutes of the Christian Religion: in two volumes, Philadelphia: Westminster, 1960.

  • Feiner, Johannes / Löhrer, Magnus (vyd.), Mysterium salutis. Grundriss heilsgeschichtlicher Dogmatik 1-5, 7 vols, Benzinger Verlag 1965-1976.

  • Melanchthon, Philip, and Christian Preus. Commonplaces : Loci Communes 1521. Concordia Publishing House, 2014.

  • Pannenberg, Wolfhart: Systematische Theologie 1–3, Göttingen 1988–1993 = Systematic Theology 1–3, London – New York: T and T Clark, 2004.

  • Schleiermacher, Friedrich: Der christliche Glaube nach den Grundsätzen der evangelischen Kirche im Zusammenhange dargestellt 1-2, 1830-1831, ed. M. Redeker, 7th ed. 1960 Berlin. = The Christian Faith, 3rd ed. London: T and T Clark 2016.

  • Tilich, Paul: Systematic Theology 1-3, Chicago 1951–1963.

  • Thomas Aquinas: Summa theologica, I–IIIsuppl., Romae 1894 = https://aquinas.cc/ (Latin and English)


More comprehensive dogmatics of the 20th and 21st centuries:

One-volume:

  • Barth, Hans Martin: Dogmatik, 2nd ed. Gütersloh 2002.

  • Berkhof, Luis: Systematic Theology, 1939/1941.

  • Körtner, Ulrich H. J.: Dogmatik, Lehrwerk evangelische Theologie 5, Leipzig: EVA, 2020.

  • Macquarrie, John: Principles of Christian Theology, New York 1966.

  • Schlink, Edmund: Ökumenische Dogmatik. Grundzüge,  Göttingen 1983. = Ecumenical Dogmatics: Basic Features. Edited by Matthew L. Becker, American edition, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022.

  • Thiselton, Anthony C.: Systematic theology. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2015.  


Two-volume:

  • Jenson, Robert W.: Systematic Theology 1-2, Oxford 1997-1999.

  • Joest, Wilfried: Dogmatik 1-2,  Göttingen 1984 a 1986.

  • Weber, Otto: Grundlagen der Dogmatik 1-2, stran, Neukirchen 1955 a 1962. = Foundations of dogmatics. Grand Rapids, Mich: William B. Eerdmans, 1981-1983.


Three-volume:

  • Brunner, Emil: Dogmatik 1-3, Zürich  1946-1960 = Dogmatique 1-3, Genéve 1964-1967,  = The Christian Doctrine 1-3, Philadelphia 1949-1962.

  • Ebeling, Gerhard: Dogmatik des christlichen Glaubens 1-3, Tübingen 1979.

  • McClendon, James Wm.; Murphy, Nancey C.; Freeman, Curtis W.: Systematic theology. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012.

  • Oden, Thomas: Systematic Theology 1-3, 448+608+560 stran, San Francisco 1989-1992.

  • Staniloae, Dumitru: Orthodoxe Dogmatik 1-3, Gütersloh 1984-1995.

  • Thielicke, Helmut: Der evangelische Glaube. Grundzüge der Dogmatik 1-3, Tübingen 1968-1978. = The Evangelical Faith 1-3, Edinburgh 1978ff.

In even more volumes:

  • Auer, Johannes / Ratzinger, Joseph: Kleine katholische Dogmatik II-IX, Regensburg 1972ff.

  • Fritzsche, Hans Georg: Lehrbuch der Dogmatik 1-4, Berlin 1964-1988.

  • Schmaus, Michael: Katholische Dogmatik I-V, 6th ed., Max  Hueber Verlag München.

  • Wenz, Gunther: Studium Systematische Theologie 1–10, Göttingen 2005–2015.


Selected monographs by the classics of systematic theology in the 20th and 21st centuries:

  • Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, et al. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works. Vol. 8 : Letters and Papers from Prison. 2010.

  • Bultmann, Rudolf, et al. Kerygma and Myth: A Theological Debate. Vols. I and II combined, S.P.C.K, 1972.

  • Dalferth, Ingolf U. Deus Praesens: Gottes Gegenwart und christlicher Glaube. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021.

  • Dalferth, Ingolf U. Sünde: die Entdeckung der Menschlichkeit. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2020.

  • Dalferth, Ingolf U. Malum: theologische Hermeneutik des Bösen. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008. = Malum. A Theological Hermeneutics of Evil, Cascade Books 2022.

  • Dalferth, Ingolf U. Becoming present: an inquiry into the Christian sense of the presence of God. Leuven: Peeters, 2006.

  • Dalferth, Ingolf U. Der auferweckte Gekreuzigte: zur Grammatik der Christologie. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr Paul Siebeck, 1994. = Crucified and resurrected: restructuring the grammar of Christology. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2015.

  • Dalferth, Ingolf U.: Creatures of possibility: the theological basis of human freedom. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016.

  • Ebeling, Gerhard, and Ronald Gregor Smith. The Nature of Faith. Third printing, Fortress Press, 1980.

  • Gallus, Petr. The perspective of resurrection: a trinitarian christology. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021

  • Jüngel, Eberhard. Tod. 5. Auflage. Gütersloh: Gütersloher-Verl.-Haus Mohn, 1993. = Death, the riddle and the mystery. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1975.

  • Jüngel, Eberhard. Das Evangelium von der Rechtfertigung des Gottlosen als Zentrum des christlichen Glaubens: eine theologische Studie in ökumenischer Absicht. 2., verbess. Aufl. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr Paul Siebeck, 1999. = Justification: the heart of the Christian faith. A theological study with an ecumenical purpose, London 2006.

  • Jüngel, Eberhard. Gott als Geheimnis der Welt: zur Begründung der Theologie des Gekreuzigten im Streit zwischen Theismus und Atheismus. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr Paul Siebeck, 1977. = God as the mystery of the world. On the foundation of the theology of the crucified one in the dispute between theism and atheism, London 2014.

  • Küng, Hans: On Being a Christian. Continuum, 2008.

  • Küng, Hans: Eternal Life? Life after Death as a Medical, Philosophical, and Theological Problem. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2003.

  • Küng, Hans: Structures of the Church. Crossroad, 1962.

  • Moltmann, Jürgen: Theologie der Hoffnung: Untersuchungen zur Begründung und zu den konsequenzen einer christlichen Eschatologie. München: Chr. Kaiser, 1969. = Theology of hope: on the ground and the implications of a christian eschatology. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.

  • Moltmann, Jürgen: Trinität und Reich gottes: zur Gotteslehre. 2. Aufl. München: Chr. Kaiser, 1986. = Trinity and the Kingdom, Minneapolis: Fortress Press 1993.

  • Moltmann, Jürgen: Bůh ve stvoření, z němč. přel. Zdeňka  Růžičková, 287stran, edice Velké postavy světové teologie, CDK Brno  1999. = God in creation: an ecological doctrine of creation : the Gifford lectures 1984-1985. London: SCM, 1989.

  • Moltmann, Jürgen: Ukřižovaný Bůh: Kristův kříž jako základ a kritika křesťanské teologie. Praha: Biblion, 2023. = The crucified god: The cross of Christ as the foundation and criticism of christian theology. 5th ed. London: SCM Press, 1995.

  • Moltmann, Jürgen. Der Weg Jesu Christi: Christologie in messianischen Dimensionen. München: Chr. Kaiser, 1989. = The way of Jesus Christ: Christology in messianic dimensions. 2nd ed. London: SCM Press, 1993.

  • Moltmann, Jürgen. Das Kommen Gottes: christliche Eschatologie. Gütersloh: Chr. Kaiser, 1995. = The coming of God: Christian eschatology. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996.

  • Moltmann, Jürgen. Kirche in der Kraft des Geistes: ein Beitrag zur messianischen Ekklesiologie. München: Chr. Kaiser, 1975. = The Church in the power of the Spirit: a contribution to messianic ecclesiology. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.

  • Moltmann, Jürgen. Der Geist des Lebens: eine ganzheitliche Pneumatologie. München: Chr. Kaiser, 1991.

  • Moltmann, Jürgen. Im Ende - der Anfang: eine kleine Hoffnungslehre. 2. Auflage. Gutersloh: Chr. Kaiser/Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2004.

  • Moltmann, Jürgen. Experiences in theology: ways and forms of Christian theology. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000.

  • Ratzinger, Joseph. Eschatology, Death and Eternal Life. 2nd ed, Catholic University of America Press, 1988.

  • Robinson, John A. T. Honest to God. 55th anniversary edition, Westminster John Knox Press, 2018.

  • Schillebeeckx, Edward. Church : The Human Story of God. , Translated by John Bowden, Paperback edition first published 2018, t&t clark, 2018.

  • Tillich, Paul. Courage to Be, 3rd ed., Yale University Press, 2014.

  • Tillich, Paul. The Shaking of the Foundations. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1984.


Theological Ethics

Recommended literature

Introductions to theological ethics:

  • Huber, Wolfgang. Ethics: The Fundamental Questions of Our Lives. Translated by Brian McNeil, Georgetown University Press, 2015.


Dictionaries and encyclopedias

  • Macquarrie, J. (ed.). Dictionary of Christian Ethics. Westminster Press 1967.

  • Macquarrie, J.; Childress, James F. (eds.). A New Dictionary of Christian Ethics. SCM Press 1990.

  • Hertz, A.; Korff, W.; Rendtorff, T.; Ringeling, H. (eds.). Handbuch der christlichen Ethik. Freiburg 1978, 1982, 1993 (2nd ed.).

  • Atkinson, David J.; Field, David H. (eds.). New Dictionary of Christian Ethics and Pastoral Care. Leicester 1995.


Ethics in the Old Testament

  • Barton, J. Ethics and the Old Testament. Harrisburg/London 1998.

  • Barton, J. Understanding Old Testament ethics: approaches and explorations. Louisville/London 2003.

  • Barton, J. Ethics in ancient Israel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

  • Birch, B. C. Let Justice Roll Down. Old Testament Ethics and Christian Life. Louisville 1991.

  • Crenshaw, James L.; Willis, John T. Essays in Old Testament Ethics. New York 1974.

  • Otto, E. Theologische Ethik des Alten Testaments. Stutgart 1994.

  • Wright, C. J. H. Living as the People of God: The Relevance of Old Testament Ethics. Leicester 1993.


Ethics in the New Testament

  • Barr, O. S. The Christian New Morality. A Biblical Study of Situation Ethics. New York 1969.

  • Bovon, François. Place de La Liberté : Vivre Libres Selon Le Nouveau Testament. Ed. du Moulin, 1986.

  • Hays, Richard B. The Moral Vision of the New Testament. San Francisco 1997.

  • Hays, Richard B. The conversion of the imagination: Paul as interpreter of Israel's Scripture. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2005.

  • Hays, Richard B. Reading backwards: figural christology and the fourfold Gospel witness. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2014.

  • Hays, Richard B. Echoes of scripture in the gospels. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2016.

  • Houlden, J. L. Ethics and the New Testament. London/Oxford 1979.

  • Lohse, Eduard. Theological Ethics of the New Testament. Fortress Press, 1991.

  • Sanders, Jack T. Ethics in the New Testament. Philadelphia 1975.

  • Schrage, Wolfgang. The Ethics of the New Testament. T & T Clark, 1988.

  • Wolter, Michael. Paul: An Outline of His Theology.. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2015.


History of Christian ethics:

  • Althaus, Paul, and Robert C. Schultz. The Ethics of Martin Luther. Fortress Press, 2007.

  • Bayer, Oswald. Martin Luther’s Theology: A Contemporary Interpretation. Grand Rapids, Mich: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2008.

  • Frey, Christofer. Die Ethik des Protestantismus von der Reformation bis zur Gegenwart. Gütersloh 1989.

  • Lohse, Bernhard. Martin Luther’s Theology: Its Historical and Systematic Development. Fortress Press ed. Minneapolis, Mich.: Fortress Press, 2011.

  • McInerny, Ralph M. Ethica Thomistica. The moral philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. Washington, D. C. : The Catholic University of America Press, 1997.

  • Meeks, Wayne A. The origins of Christian morality : the first two centuries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

  • Niebuhr, H. Richard. Radical Monotheism and Western Culture. London 1960.

  • Osborn, Eric. Ethical Patterns in Early Christian Thought. Cambridge 1976.

  • Rohls, Jan. Geschichte der Ethik. Tübingen 1991.

  • Wogaman, Philip. Christian Ethics. A Historical Introduction. John Knox Press, Louisville 1993.

  • Wogaman, Philip. Readings in christian ethics: a historical sourcebook. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996.


Comprehensive works in theological ethics:

  • Barth, Karl, Ethics. T & T Clark, 2019

  • Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, et al. Ethics. 1st Fortress Press pbk. ed, Fortress Press, 2005.

  • Brunner, Emil. The Divine Imperative. Translated by Olive Wyon, The Westminster Press, 1947.

  • Fletcher, Joseph. Situation Ethics. The New Morality. London 1966.

  • Frey, Christofer. Theologische Ethik. Neukirchen 1990.

  • Gustafson, James. Ethics From a Theocentric Perspective I-II. Chicago 1981/1984.

  • Küng, Hans. On Being a Christian. Continuum, 2008.

  • Lange, Dietz. Ethik in evangelischer Perspektive. Göttingen 1992.

  • Lehmann, Paul L. Ethics in a Christian Context. New York 1963.

  • Logstrup, Knud E. The ethical demand. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame press, 1997.

  • Mehl, Roger. Ethique catholique et éthique protestante. Neuchatel 1970.

  • Niebuhr, H. Richard. The Responsible Self. New York 1963.

  • Niebuhr, Reinhold. An Interpretation of Christian Ethics. New York/London 1935.

  • Nygren, Anders. Agape and Eros. University of Chicago Press, 1953.

  • Pannenberg, Wolfhart. Ethics. Translated by Keith R. Crim, Westminster Press ; Search Press, 1981.

  • Ramsey, Paul. Basic Christian Ethics. New York 1950.

  • Rendtorff, Trutz. Ethik. Grundelemente, Methodologie und Konkretionen einer ethischen Theologie I-II. Stuttgart 1980/1981.

  • Schleiermacher, Friedrich. Introduction to Christian Ethics. Translated by John Shelley, Abingdon Press, 1989.

  • Schleiermacher, Friedrich, and James M. Brandt. Selections from Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Christian Ethics. 1st ed, Westminster John Knox Press, 2011.

  • Sölle, Dorothee, and Lawrence W. Denef. Beyond Mere Obedience. Pilgrim Press, 1982.

  • Tillich, Paul. Love, power, and justice: ontological analyses and ethical applications. New York: Oxford University Press, 1954.

  • Tillich, Paul. Morality and beyond. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.

  • Wells, Samuel, et al. Introducing Christian Ethics. Second edition. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.


Social ethics:

  • Pope Francis, encyclical Fratelli tutti, 2020.

  • Honecker, Martin. Grundriss der Sozialethik. Berlin 1995.

  • Körtner, Ulrich H. J. Evangelische Sozialethik. Göttingen 1999.

  • Niebuhr, H. Richard. Christ and Culture. New York 1950.

  • Niebuhr, Reinhold. Moral Man and Immoral Society. A Study in Ethics and Politics. New York 1933.

  • Rich, Arthur, and Georges Enderle. Business and Economic Ethics : The Ethics of Economic Systems. [4th ed.], Peeters, 2006.

  • Contemporary Catholic Social Teaching. United States Catholic Conference, 1991.

  • Troeltsch, Ernst. The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches. Westminster/John Knox Press, 1931.


Human rights:

  • Fuchs, Eric; Stucki, Pierre-Andre. Au nom de l ´Autre. Geneve 1985.

  • Halama, Jindřich (ed.). The Idea of Human Rights: Traditions and Presence. Praha 2003.

  • Ishay, Micheline R. (ed.). The Human Rights Reader, Major Political Essays, Speeches and Documents From the Bible to the Present. London 1997.

  • Stackhouse, Max L. Creeds, Society and Human Rights: A Study in Three Cultures. Grand Rapids, Mich. 1984.

  • Vögele, Wolfgang. Menschenwürde zwischen Recht und Theologie. Begründung von Menschenrechten in der Perspektive öffentlicher Theologie. Gütersloh 2000.


Environmental ethics:

  • Pope Francis, encyclical Laudato si', 2015.

  • Hall, D. J. Imaging God: Dominion as Stewardship. Grand Rapids 1986.

  • Liedke, Gerhard. Im Bauch des Fisches. Ökologische Theologie. Stuttgart 1979.

  • Linzey, Andrew. Animal Gospel. Westminster John Knox Press, 1998.

  • Linzey, Andrew (ed.). The Palgrave Handbook of Practical Animal Ethics. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018.

  • McDaniel, Jay B. Of God and Pelicans : A Theology of Reverence for Life. 1st ed, Westminster/John Knox Press, 1989.

  • Moltmann, Jürgen. God in Creation : A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God. 1st Fortress Press ed, Fortress Press, 1985.

  • Nash, James A. Loving Nature. (Abingdon Press) Nashville 1991.

  • Rasmussen, Larry L. Earth Community, Earth Ethics. Maryknoll, NY 1996.

  • Santmire, H. Paul. Nature Reborn: The Ecological and Cosmic Promise of Christian Theology. Minneapolis 2000.

  • Santmire, H. Paul. The Travail of Nature : The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology. Philadelphia 1985.


Bioethics, life, death:

  • Basterra, Francisco Javier Elizari. Bioethics. Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, 1994.

  • Beauchamp, T. L.; Childress, J. F. Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Oxford 1979.

  • Engelhardt, Hugo Tristram. The foundations of christian bioethics. Lisse : Swets & Zeitlinger, 2000.

  • Fischer, Johannes. Medizin- und bioethische Perspektiven. Beiträge zur Urteilsbildung im bereich von Medizin und Biologie. Zürich 2002.

  • Howell, Joseph H.; Sale, William F. (eds.). Life choices : A Hastings Center Introduction to Bioethics. Washington, D. C. : Georgetown University Press, 1995.

  • Jonas, Hans. The Imperative of Responsibility in Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age. The University of Chicago Press, 1984.

  • Jüngel, Eberhard. Death. The Riddle and Mystery., Philadelphia 1975.

  • Korff, W.; Beck, L.; Mikat, P. et al. (eds.). Lexikon der Bioethik I-III. Gütersloh : Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 1998.

  • Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth. On Death and Dying. Macmillan, 2021.

  • Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, and David Kessler. Life Lessons : How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life and Living. Simon & Schuster, 2011.

  • Küng, Hans; Jens, Walter. A Dignified Dying. A Plea for Personal Responsibility. London: SCM Press 1995.

  • Lammers, Stephen E.; Verhey, Allen (eds.). On Moral Medicine. Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics. Grand Rapids : W. B. Eerdmans 1987 (2nd ed. 1998).

  • Meilaender, Gilbert. Bioethics : a primer for christians. Grand Rapids : W. B. Eerdmans, 1996.

  • Peters, Ted. Cosmos as creation: theology and science in consonance. Nashville: Abingdon, c1989.

  • Peters, Ted. AI and IA: utopia or extinction? Adelaide: ATF Press, 2018.

  • Thomasma, David C.; Kimbrough-Kushner, Thomasine; Kimsma, Gerrit K.; Ciesielski-Carlucci, Chris (eds.). Asking to Die. Inside the Dutch Debate about Euthanasia. Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998.

  • Thomasma, David C., and Thomasine Kimbrough Kushner. Birth to Death : Science and Bioethics. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

  • Verhey, Allen. Religion and Medical Ethics. Looking Back, Looking Forward. Grand Rapids, W. B. Eerdmans, 1996.


Man and woman, partnership, family

  • Cahill, Lisa Sowle. Family. A Christian social perspective. Minneapolis, Fortress 2000.

  • Cahill, Lisa Sowle. Sex, Gender and Christian Ethics. Cambridge 1996.

  • Demmer, Klaus; Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn, Aldegonde (eds.). Christian Marriage Today. Washington, D. C. : The Catholic University of America Press 1997.

  • Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (Hg.). Ehe, Familie, Frauen und Männer. Teil 1. Gütersloh, Gerd Mohn 1993.

  • Ford, Jeffrey E. Love, Marriage and Sex in the Christian Tradition from Antiquity to Today. San Francisco, International Scholars Publications, 1999.

  • Fuchs, Eric. Le désir et la tendresse. Pour une éthique chrétienne de la sexualité. Paris - Genf 1999.

  • Greenough, Chris. Queer Theologies: The Basics. Abingdon New York (N.Y.): Routledge, 2019.

  • Chang, Patrick S. Radical love: an introduction to queer theology. New York: Seabury Books, 2011.

  • Thatcher, Adrian. Gender and Christian Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

  • Thatcher, Adrian. The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

  • Torrance, David W. (ed.). God, Family and Sexuality. Carberry, Handsel, 1997.


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