A panoramic view of the richness, depth and diversity of the major Christian ethical traditions. It covers some of the most important ethical thinkers that Christianity has produced, from the second to the late 20th centuries. It comprises 70 extracts, arranged chronologically, and each extract is accompanied by a brief introduction plus explanatory notes. The authors represented include Aquinas, Augustine, Barth, Bernard of Clairvaux, Bonhoeffer; Calvin, Catherine of Siena, Francisco de Suarez, Erasmus, Gutierrez, Hildegard of Bingen, Pope John XXIII, Luther, Luther King, Maurice, Reinhold Niebuhr, Origen, Rauschenbusch, Ruether, Schleiermacher, Teresa of Avila, Tillich, Wesley, and more.
