Every thoughtful person should be concerned about and interested in ethics. For the Christian, being moral is critical to a life that seeks to honor God. Many decisions made on a day-to-day basis involve questions of right and wrong. Ethics provide the basis on which you make those decisions and the basis of a moral choice is often as important as the choice itself. Yet, few people have thought through the way they justify their conceptions of right and wrong. Most people use the term morality and ethics interchangeably. Technically, morality refers to the actual content of right and wrong, and ethics refers to the process of determining right and wrong. Morality is the end result of ethical deliberation.

One of the primary reasons of ethical debates remain unresolved is that the participants are applying different methods of moral reasoning. In order to be able to converse with an increasingly secular world about ethics and morality, we need exposure to the ways in which people have done ethics. Any Christian ethic that is serious about having influence in a secular world must interact with the major figures in the history of ethics. This book includes exposure to various ethical systems and the key historical figures associated with them.

The distinctive elements of Christian ethics are outlined. As Christians we have the responsibility to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world but whether that means that we can legislate biblical morality is another matter. Since the process of making a moral decision can be as important as the decision itself, the author provides guidelines for making moral decisions. The procedure suggested is not a formula or a computer program that will automatically generate the "right" answer to ethical problems or enable a person to easily resolve ethical dilemmas. Rather, it is a model designed to make sure that the right questions are being asked in the process of ethical deliberation.

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