Living in Grace

Virtue Ethics and Christian Living

by Claire Disbrey

Back in the 1980s, virtue was at the cutting edge of moral philosophy and Christian ethics. Such is the attention lavished upon it since, there’s a small part of this reviewer that wonders if we’ve reached saturation point. That’s not to diminish the quality of Disbrey’s work here, though. In fact, she offers something slightly novel – which is an articulation of Christian virtue ethics as a thoroughgoing biblical model. That she posits this as a ‘third way’ between legalism and antinomianism is rather more hackneyed. But on the whole, this is a decent read, made all the more engaging by the author’s use of concrete examples from the real world in which Christian people have to make decisions.



Reviewer: Tim Gibson  

Paperback
Price: £7.99
Publisher:BRF (Bible Reading Fellowship)
Published:23 March 2008
ISBN:978-1-841-01403-6