Too often, says Nigel Biggar in Behaving in Public: How To Do Christian Ethics contemporary Christian ethics poses a false dichotomy between either "conservative" theological integrity or "liberal" secular consensus.
Behaving in Public explains both why and how Christians should resist these polarized and often unreasonable and uncharitable options. Informed by a definitive Christian theological vision of moral life, Biggar's succinct argument charts a third way forward and clears space that will allow faithful Christians to turn toward the world with openness and curiosity, and yet maintain their distinctive religious faith and convictions.
Behaving in Public explains both why and how Christians should resist these polarized and often unreasonable and uncharitable options. Informed by a definitive Christian theological vision of moral life, Biggar's succinct argument charts a third way forward and clears space that will allow faithful Christians to turn toward the world with openness and curiosity, and yet maintain their distinctive religious faith and convictions.