Luke Bretherton is the Robert E. Cushman Distinguished Professor of Moral and Political Theology at Duke University. He is the author of Christ and the Common Life (2019), Resurrecting Democracy (2014), Hospitality as Holiness (2010), and Christianity and Contemporary Politics (2010), winner of the 2013 Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing. Alongside his scholarship and teaching, he writes on topics related to religion and politics in the media, hosts the Listen, Organize, Act! Podcast, and is involved in forms of grassroots democratic politics, both the United Kingdom and the United States.

• 1. Christ and the struggle to live well; I. Describing Well: 2. Listening to creaturely life; 3. Listening to Scripture; 4. Listening to strangers; 5. Listening to cries for liberation; 6. Listening to ancestors; II. Acting Well: 7. Finitude and fallenness; 8. Call and commands; 9. Rules and regulations; 10. Virtues and vision; 11. Deliberation and judgment; III. Living Well with Others: 12. Intimacy; 13. Work; 14. Politics.

'The scope, range, and depth of this book is unparalleled among other primers in Christian ethics and I recommend it most highly … At a time when conversations in Christian ethics and political theology are often polarized and polarizing, this text exemplifies alternative ways to think and talk about contemporary challenges in light of the Christian tradition.' Emily Dumler-Winckler, Saint Louis University

Luke Bretherton is the Robert E. Cushman Distinguished Professor of Moral and Political Theology at Duke University. He is the author of Christ and the Common Life (2019), Resurrecting Democracy (2014), Hospitality as Holiness (2010), and Christianity and Contemporary Politics (2010), winner of the 2013 Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing. Alongside his scholarship and teaching, he writes on topics related to religion and politics in the media, hosts the Listen, Organize, Act! Podcast, and is involved in forms of grassroots democratic politics, both the United Kingdom and the United States.

• 1. Christ and the struggle to live well; I. Describing Well: 2. Listening to creaturely life; 3. Listening to Scripture; 4. Listening to strangers; 5. Listening to cries for liberation; 6. Listening to ancestors; II. Acting Well: 7. Finitude and fallenness; 8. Call and commands; 9. Rules and regulations; 10. Virtues and vision; 11. Deliberation and judgment; III. Living Well with Others: 12. Intimacy; 13. Work; 14. Politics.

'The scope, range, and depth of this book is unparalleled among other primers in Christian ethics and I recommend it most highly … At a time when conversations in Christian ethics and political theology are often polarized and polarizing, this text exemplifies alternative ways to think and talk about contemporary challenges in light of the Christian tradition.' Emily Dumler-Winckler, Saint Louis University

Luke Bretherton is the Robert E. Cushman Distinguished Professor of Moral and Political Theology at Duke University. He is the author of Christ and the Common Life (2019), Resurrecting Democracy (2014), Hospitality as Holiness (2010), and Christianity and Contemporary Politics (2010), winner of the 2013 Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing. Alongside his scholarship and teaching, he writes on topics related to religion and politics in the media, hosts the Listen, Organize, Act! Podcast, and is involved in forms of grassroots democratic politics, both the United Kingdom and the United States.

• 1. Christ and the struggle to live well; I. Describing Well: 2. Listening to creaturely life; 3. Listening to Scripture; 4. Listening to strangers; 5. Listening to cries for liberation; 6. Listening to ancestors; II. Acting Well: 7. Finitude and fallenness; 8. Call and commands; 9. Rules and regulations; 10. Virtues and vision; 11. Deliberation and judgment; III. Living Well with Others: 12. Intimacy; 13. Work; 14. Politics.

'The scope, range, and depth of this book is unparalleled among other primers in Christian ethics and I recommend it most highly … At a time when conversations in Christian ethics and political theology are often polarized and polarizing, this text exemplifies alternative ways to think and talk about contemporary challenges in light of the Christian tradition.' Emily Dumler-Winckler, Saint Louis University