Table of Contents
Declaration concerning religion, ethics, and the crisis in the Clinton presidency -- Signers of the Declaration -- pt. 1. Declaration signatories make their case. The ethics and politics of repentence and forgiveness. Politics and forgiveness : the Clinton case / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Broken covenants : a threat to society? / Max L. Stackhouse -- Why Clinton is incapable of lying : a Christian analysis / Stanley Hauerwas -- President Clinton and the privatization of morality / Matthew L. Lamb -- Missing the point on Clinton / Don Browning -- Dawdling toward judgment : the impeachment issue and the perennial problems of cauistry / John Lawrence -- Biblical, pastoral, and theological perspectives on public morality. Confession and forgiveness in the public sphere : a biblical evaluation / Robert Jewett -- How shall we respond to wrongdoing? : is moral indignation permissable for Christians? / Klyne Snodgrass -- A biblical perspective on the forgiveness debate / Troy W. Martin -- African-American pastoral theology as public theology : the crisis of private and public in the White House / Edward P. Wimberly -- Christian doctrine and presidential decisions / Gabriel Fackre --