This enlightening book steers readers through the challenges and moral issues, providing a clear and decisive history of the main figures and texts in Christian ethics.

• A short and lively history of Christian ethics, exploring how Christianity has always had to grapple with complex moral problems - from questions about the status of early Christians who renounced their religion under Roman torture, through to current debates about euthanasia
  
• Engages with the main texts and figures in Christian ethics, including Augustine, Benedict, Aquinas, Luther and Barth
  
• Considers questions such as human will, the proper form of Christian life, natural law, and whether human nature is at odds with Christian ethics
  
• Concludes with a thought-provoking chapter considering the role that Christian ethics can play in contemporary moral debates and ethical dilemmas

Michael Banner is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and has held chairs at the University of Edinburgh and King's college, London. He has also chaired an advisory panel on issues to do with the use of animals in scientific experiments, and is a board member of the Human Tissue Authority. He is the author of Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems (1999) and The Justification of Science and the Rationality of Religious Belief (1990).