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Choosing the Good: Christian Ethics in a Complex World begins with a survey of the ethical approaches that have been adopted by secular and Christian ethicists. Beyond the common consequentialist and principle-oriented perspectives, an alternative character/virtue approach has recently found wide acceptance, particularly in the work of Alasdair MacIntyre and Stanley Hauerwas. Hollinger provides a...

issue but simply a matter of controlling one’s life. Ethical questions need not be raised. In the same manner, abortion is described as a matter of personal choice, lying outside the pale of morality and particularly outside the realm of society’s ethical concern. Several years ago I had a conversation with a man who worked for a military industry making armaments for war. As we talked it became evident that he saw his work as an amoral enterprise, for he said, “Until today I had never let myself
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