We have not been left simply to fend for ourselves in the ordering of our lives. The guidance afforded by the Ten Commandments, far from hindering or enslaving, in fact encourages and liberates us. The Ten Commandments are "signposts to freedom."

From the Preface

In this book, Prof. Lochman presents an ethic illuminated by the Ten Commandments. In wrestling to discover the meaning of human life, both individual and social, his deepest concern has been with "freedom under the law." Lochman points out that no human society, however well equipped technologically, can exist without a moral basis, convictions which are more than mere opportunism, pragmatism, and calculated self-interest. This moral basis is provided by the Ten Commandments, the "Magna Charta of freedom.

Lochman current problem areas of personal, sexual, and social ethics: worship of false gods, anxiety, the work ethic and the cult of success, murder, terrorism, suicide, abortion, euthanasia, the death penalty, war, the new morality, and new understandings of shared life in marriage.

All who teach the faith and all who seek faith and understanding will find treasure here.

Translator David Lewis

JAN MILIC LOCHMAN, professor of theology at Basel, lived in Czechoslovakia until 1968 where he was a pastor and professor. He is the author of Living Roots of Reformation, Encountering Marx, and Church in a Marxist Society.

DAVID LEWIS, translator and journalist, lives in Geneva.