The Use of the Bible in Christian Ethics: A Constructive Essay

In this book Thomas Ogletree seeks to establish common ground between biblical understandings and contemporary ethical inquiry. Drawing upon phenomenological investigations he criticizes and modifies some of the most prominent conceptions of ethics and moves toward a more coherent and comprehensive ethical theory. Guided by this theory he critically engages selected biblical treatments of the moral life placing special emphasis on biblical accounts of eschatology in its import for the ordered life of emerging Christian communities.