NEW and UNREAD - but tear in jacket and name on inside cover. Seeks to establish common ground between biblical understandings and contemporary ethical inquiry. Draws upon phenomenological investigations, and modifies some of the most prominent conceptions of ethics, and moves toward a more coherent and comprehensive ethical theory. This theory engages selected biblical treatments of the moral life, placing special emphasis on biblical accounts of eschatology in its import for the ordered life of emerging Christian communities. A Dewey Decimal Number has been added for easy library filing. This new book has torn jacket and name on inside cover.