to be “nourished on the doctrine of the Scriptures.”8 The question, which has agitated Protestant theology for some time without yielding a great deal of illumination, is what kind of use of a canonical and authoritative text can make Ethics well-nourished. One must either say very much by way of answer to that question, or very little. Here we shall be content with very little, confining ourselves to two points of principle. First, Ethics reflects on the conditions of good moral thinking. Were it