An Interpretation of Christian Ethics

Reinhold Niebuhr's An Interpretation of Christian Ethics is both an introduction to the discipline and a presentation of the authors distinctive approach. That approach focuses on a realistic (rather than moralistic) understanding of the challenges facing human individuals and institutions, and a call for justiceimperfect though it might beas what love looks like in a fallen world. The books most distinctive aspect is the authors insistence that perfect love and justice are unattainable in this world, yet they remain our most important goals.