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These essays critically appropriate the concepts of responsibility and covenant by reconceptualizing them within diverse Christian ethical traditions (virtue ethics, feminist ethics, African-American) and by discerning their implications for critical social issues, including abortion, law, medicine, public policy, and technology. Contents: Responsibility and Covenant in the Writings of E. Clinton Gardner, Fred Glennon and Russ Willis; The Gendered Division of Moral Labor: Radical Relationalism and Feminist Ethics, Janet Jakobsen; The Gospel as Tragedy: On Moral Collisions, Tragic Flaws and the Possibility of Redemption, Lou Ruprecht; Responsibility and Moral Betrayal, Christine Pohl; A Womanist Model of Responsibility: The Moral Agency of Victoria Way DeLee, Rosetta Ross; A Transformative-Responsiblist Ethic of Justice: Martin, Malcolm & Angela, Bill Thurston; Ecclesiology and Covenant: Christian Social Institutions in a Pluralistic Society, Jim Thobaben; Virtue Ethics and Political Responsibility, Pete Gathje; Renewing the Welfare Covenant: Welfare Reform and Responsible Poverty Policy, Fred Glennon; The Ethics of Leaving Ms. Smith Alone: A Responsiblist Corrective to Autonomy in Medicine, Adele Resmer; Casting One Stone After Another: The Failure of Moral Responsibility in the American System of Capital Punishment, Darryl Trimiew; Should Responsibility Be Taught Through Mandated High School Service?, Les Weber; Technology and Responsibility: An Ethic of Self-Limiting Participation, Russ Willis.