Why Christian Ethics Was Invented
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells
“Once, there was no Christian ethics.”
Christian ethics is a relatively recent invention. It was in the late 1899s that it became a discipline in universities and seminaries. The study of Christian ethics has become largely a study of ideas about ethics by theologians. Ethics has become a discipline separate from theology. This book seeks to make that separation a thing of the past.
"Christianity is not principally something people think or feel or say--it something people do."