title: Priorities and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics)
author: Garth L. Hallett
description: "This book, with an example obviously of interest to students, deserves a place in college and seminary libraries as an illustration of careful casuitry." Choice<br /><br />"...the book is clearly written, impressively researched, and usually thoughtful....an admirable and challenging addition to literature on the nature and order of Christian love and deserves to be read in any graduate discussion of the subject." Paul J. Wadell, Religious Studies Review<br /><br />"The book is, in the best tradition of roman Catholic casuistry, a detailed exploration of an issue...that seeks to investigate a particular moral dilemma so as to shed light on more general issues and exemplify broader moral principles." Jeph Holloway, Southwestern Journal of Theology<br /><br />"This book is an exemplary piece of casuistry in the best sense of the word...wonderful...To read this book is to be invited into a world of rare moral beauty. This book has the kind of authority that arises when a thinker sympathetically entertains arguments that are contrary to his own. This makes the book a rewarding experience, a real page turner as the reader tries to follow myriad well-told arguments regarding a concrete case that, by analogy, is the story of our lives, the situation about which each of us makes decisions every day, directing our resources either toward the nearest of the neediest every time we open our wallets." The Journal of Religion
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  OXFORD STUDIES IN THEOLOGICAL ETHICS
  
  
  _General Editor_ : Oliver O'Donovan
  
  
  OXFORD STUDIES IN THEOLOGICAL ETHICS
  
  
  The series presents discussions on topics of general concern to Christian
  Ethics, as it is currently taught in universities and colleges, at the level
  demanded by a serious student. The volumes will not be specialized monographs
  nor general introductions or surveys. They aim to make a contribution worthy
  of notice in its own right but also focused in such a way as to provide a
  suitable starting-point for orientation.
  
  
  The titles include studies in important contributors to the Christian
  tradition of moral thought; explorations of current moral and social
  questions; and discussions of central concepts in Christian moral and
  political thought. Authors treat their topics in a way that will show the
  relevance of the Christian tradition, but with openness to neighbouring
  traditions of thought which have entered into dialogue with it.
  
  
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