What Catholics call “moral theology” Protestants tend to call “Christian ethics.” Whatever you call it, this is the discipline of discernment which Gilbert Meilaender succinctly describes: “As we seek daily to creep ever more fully into our baptism, we struggle to distinguish between those actions that follow Christ and those that do not.” (...)
March 09, 2007
Books
Duty & Delight
The Freedom of a ChristianGrace, Vocation, and the Meaning of Our HumanityGilbert MeilaenderBrazos Press, $22.99, 192 pp.The Way That Leads ThereAugustinian Reflections on the Christian LifeGilbert MeilaenderWm. B. Eerdmans, $16, 172 pp.
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