Christian ethics in America has always been America. Christian ethicists no longer think, as Walter Rauschenbusch did, that their task is to Christianize the social order, but they continue to share Rauschenbusch’s presumption that America is the appropriate subject for Christian ethical reflection and action. My refusal to accept this presumption means I cannot help but be interpreted as a traitor to my class or, at least, my discipline. I confess I have been tempted, and no doubt at times have