Traditional Christian Ethics

<p>Traditional Christian Ethics features two exhaustive alphabetical lists of affirmative commandments and prohibitions from the earliest Christian ethics as found in writers before the mass apostasy of 249-251 AD. The affirmatives or positives list consists of what Christians are/were commanded or encouraged to do. The other list is of negatives or prohibitions i.e. what Christians are/were discouraged from doing similarly arranged. The source material for the work encompasses far more than the ten-volume Ante-Nicene Fathers edited by Roberts and Donaldson. It also draws from all writings of the period: Christian Jewish and pagan available in English or French translation plus a few Latin translations. Some translations have been published only in scholarly journals and some only in the twenty-first century. </p> <p>Volumes Two and Three form a single exhaustive alphabetical list of affirmative commandments or precepts including mental attitudes i.e. what Christian ethics commanded or encouraged according to writers on Christian ethics before 250 AD.</p> <p>Using earlier drafts of this set of books Dr. Brattston's articles and booklets synthesizing early and contemporary Christianity have been published by a wide variety of denominations and ministries in every major English-speaking country. He hopes readers will use them as a starting-point for writing articles papers and sermons of their own.</p>