Ethics in the Presence of Christ

By casting the identity of Christ as the One-Who-Is-Present Holmes concentrates on how Christ ministers his power truth and love in the Spirit for the sake of the transformation of human life.<br/>As present Christ's work is both finished and unfinished complete and open-ended; as endlessly contemporary it is constitutive of reality and so (re-)shapes the ethical landscape and the moral life. In revisiting the doctrine of Christ's contemporaneity with its ethical implications firmly in view Holmes's work fills a lacuna in the contemporary literature on Christian ethics. In conversation with John's Gospel the priority of Christology comes to drive the very shape of moral questions for today. Here the compelling task of ethics is a matter ofbecoming aligned with and transparent to Christ's own presence and so to Christ's work of making all things new.