Resurgent interest in Carl Henry as one of America's finest evangelical theologians has reignited in his formative works like this one. His work on ethics was essential both to his leadership of Christianity Today and to his magnum opus God, Revelation and Authority. Henry scholar Greg Thornbury has just been named president of The King's College in New York City, bringing further interest in Henry's work to a new audience.

Table of Contents

1. Naturalistic Ethics and the Animalization of the Moral Life
2. Idealistic Ethics and the Deification of the Moral Life
3. Existential Ethics and the Intensification of the Moral Life
4. The Image of God Created and Sullied
5. Christian Ethics and the Antitheses of Speculative Morality
6. The World of Fallen Morality
7. Transcendent Revelation as the Source of Christian Ethics
8. The Good as the Will of God as Lord
9. Love, the Divine Imperative in Personal Relations
10. The Determination of the Content of the Moral Life
11. The Biblical Particularization of the Moral Life: The Old Testament
12. The Biblical Particularization of the Will of God: The Sermon on the Mount
13. The Biblical Particularization of the Will of God: The Larger New Testament
14. The Law and the Gospel
15. Christian Ethics as Predicated on Atonement
16. Christian Ethics as the Morality of the Regenerate Man
17. Jesus as the Ideal of Christian Ethics
18. New Testament Principles of Conduct
19. The Holy Spirit, the Christian Ethical Dynamic
20. The Christian Life as a Possession
21. The Distinctive New Testament Virtues
22. Conscience as a Christian Phenomenon
23. Motives and Sanctions of the Good Life
24. The Eschatological Sanction for Ethics
25. Christian Morality and the Life of Prayer