This unique introductory text offers a wide-ranging exam- ination of criticism of Christian ethics since the Enlighten- ment and a positive approach to how these criticisms are met today.

From considerations of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud, Brian Hebblethwaite moves to investigate the views of more recent critics and the defense of Christian ethics under critical attack. He also mounts a probing inquiry into situation ethics and the theology of liberation, the relation- ship of Christianity to the ethics of other world religions, and the place of ethics in the Christian religion itself.

A thorough and reliable survey, this concise overview pro- vides a much-needed summary of the major issues, writers, and movements in modern Christian ethics.

BRIAN HEBBLETHWAITE is University Lecturer in Divinity at Cambridge University in the area of Philosophy of Reli gion and Fellow, Dean of Chapel, and Director of Studies in Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies at Queens' College.