"Ramsey's use of biblical, theological, and philosophical material for ethical reflection was unparalleled at the midpoint of the twentieth century....Forty years after its first publication, Basic Christian Ethics remains surprisingly contemporary. The questions it addresses, and the questions it generates, remain; few commentators have explored them as thoroughly as did Paul Ramsey."---From the Foreword by Stanley Hauerwas and D. Stephen Long
"This treatise on Christian ethics is one of the most thoughtful and comprehensive presentations of the subject we have had in many years."---Reinhold Niebuhr
"Paul Ramsey is the most prolific, most contoversial, and most important American author in Christian ethics today....Basic Christian Ethics remains his most comprehensive work in the area of theology and ethics."---James M. Gustafson
