TY - BOOK AU - Lehmann,Paul Louis TI - Ethics in a Christian context U1 - 241 LEHC PY - 1963///] CY - New York PB - Harper & Row KW - Christian ethics KW - CHRISTIAN ETHICS AND NEW TESTAMENT ETHICS KW - Messianism - theology of and christian ethics KW - contextual ethic KW - moral theology - critique of KW - koinonia ethic N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-370. Bibliographical footnotes); Christian faith and Christian ethics --; Christian thinking about ethics --; The church as the context of ethical reflection --; What God is doing in the world --; Christian ethics and a theology of Messianism --; The contextual character of Christian ethics --; Christian and philosophical thinking about ethics --; The search for the good --; The redirection of the search ; The powers of man ; On ethics and language ; On the boundary of ethics and Christian faith --; The insufficiency of philosophical ethics --; The question of conscience --; A critique of moral theology --; The decline and fall of conscience --; The ethical reality of conscience; Also issued online N2 - Part One describes just what the method of a Christian ethic as a theological discipline involves. Part Two extends the methodological description by contrasting theological ethics with the tradition of Western moral philosophy as represented by Aristotle, Kant, James, Weiss, Fromm and Brandt. ER -