A concise compendium of the fundamental principles of Christian life by three of the most respected scholars in the Catholic Church. Heinz Schurmann opens the book with a discussion of Jesus' deeds and words being the ultimate ethical norm and the normative character of apostolic and primitive Christian values and injunctions. Following Schurmann, Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) discusses examples of the interrelation of faith and morals and the teaching authority of the Church. Hans Urs von Balthasar then closes the book out in discussions on the fulfillment of ethics in Christ, the Old Testament elements of the synthesis to come, and the fragments of extrabiblical ethics. Richly footnoted.
