Hans G. Ulrich is Emeritus Professor of Theology and Chair of Ethics at the Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Brian Brock is Professor of Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

These essays introduce one of the foremost theological ethicists of the past half century to an English-speaking audience that has much to learn from him. Ranging across many topics and disciplines, Ulrich's theology is an affirmation of the goodness of the human condition that begins by refusing to accept it on its own terms.

• Introduction Part I. A Christian Ethics of Messianic Presence (Ecclesia) Chapter 1:The Messianic Contours of Evangelical EthicsChapter 2: The Form and its Forms According to BonhoefferChapter 3: Explorative Theology: Discovery and DiscernmentPart II: Christian Witness in the World (Politeia) Chapter 4: The Public Appearance of Religion: God’s Commandments and their Political Presence—In Lutheran PerspectiveChapter 5:Human Economies at their Limits, but Governed within their LimitsChapter 6:Adoption: A Theological Account of Political Responsibility to Entrusted LivesPart III. Receiving Given Life (Oeconomia) Chapter 7: God’s Story and Engelhardt’s Bioethics: Christian Witness in Modern MedicineChapter 8:A Theological-Critical Hermeneutics of Life: Engaging Genetic ScienceChapter 9:God’s Transfiguring Presence: Newly Created in the Presence of Disabled BibliographyIndex

Hans G. Ulrich is Emeritus Professor of Theology and Chair of Ethics at the Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Brian Brock is Professor of Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

These essays introduce one of the foremost theological ethicists of the past half century to an English-speaking audience that has much to learn from him. Ranging across many topics and disciplines, Ulrich's theology is an affirmation of the goodness of the human condition that begins by refusing to accept it on its own terms.

• Introduction Part I. A Christian Ethics of Messianic Presence (Ecclesia) Chapter 1:The Messianic Contours of Evangelical EthicsChapter 2: The Form and its Forms According to BonhoefferChapter 3: Explorative Theology: Discovery and DiscernmentPart II: Christian Witness in the World (Politeia) Chapter 4: The Public Appearance of Religion: God’s Commandments and their Political Presence—In Lutheran PerspectiveChapter 5:Human Economies at their Limits, but Governed within their LimitsChapter 6:Adoption: A Theological Account of Political Responsibility to Entrusted LivesPart III. Receiving Given Life (Oeconomia) Chapter 7: God’s Story and Engelhardt’s Bioethics: Christian Witness in Modern MedicineChapter 8:A Theological-Critical Hermeneutics of Life: Engaging Genetic ScienceChapter 9:God’s Transfiguring Presence: Newly Created in the Presence of Disabled BibliographyIndex

Hans G. Ulrich is Emeritus Professor of Theology and Chair of Ethics at the Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Brian Brock is Professor of Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

These essays introduce one of the foremost theological ethicists of the past half century to an English-speaking audience that has much to learn from him. Ranging across many topics and disciplines, Ulrich's theology is an affirmation of the goodness of the human condition that begins by refusing to accept it on its own terms.

• Introduction Part I. A Christian Ethics of Messianic Presence (Ecclesia) Chapter 1:The Messianic Contours of Evangelical EthicsChapter 2: The Form and its Forms According to BonhoefferChapter 3: Explorative Theology: Discovery and DiscernmentPart II: Christian Witness in the World (Politeia) Chapter 4: The Public Appearance of Religion: God’s Commandments and their Political Presence—In Lutheran PerspectiveChapter 5:Human Economies at their Limits, but Governed within their LimitsChapter 6:Adoption: A Theological Account of Political Responsibility to Entrusted LivesPart III. Receiving Given Life (Oeconomia) Chapter 7: God’s Story and Engelhardt’s Bioethics: Christian Witness in Modern MedicineChapter 8:A Theological-Critical Hermeneutics of Life: Engaging Genetic ScienceChapter 9:God’s Transfiguring Presence: Newly Created in the Presence of Disabled BibliographyIndex