THIS book challenges current thinking on professional ethics and suggests new ways of looking at ethical issues.

The contributors to the volume (Michael Goldberg, Richard P. Vance, Deborah Fernhoff, Nancey Murphy, Theophus H. Smith, Jack L.. Sammons Jr., William H. Willimon, and Senator John C. Danforth) are out standing representatives of their respective professions. In this book, using the categories of religion and narra tive as methodological tools, they move readers to a more responsive, hopeful, and truthful conduct of the professions.