Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- General editor's preface -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE Introduction -- THE SOCIAL CONTEXT -- THE CHURCH AS A MORAL COMMUNITY -- THE MORAL ECOLOGY OF THE EARLY CHURCHES -- CHAPTER TWO Christian ethical distinctiveness -- KARL BARTH -- POST-LIBERALISM -- 'VERITATIS SPLENDOR' -- CHAPTER THREE Ecclesial ethics - Stanley Hauerwas -- THE FAILURE OF LIBERALISM -- VIRTUE, COMMUNITY, AND NARRATIVE -- CHRISTIAN HOMOGENEITY -- THE SECTARIAN CHARGE -- THE NATURE OF THEOLOGICAL TRUTH -- CHURCH AND WORLD -- CHAPTER FOUR Moral realism in recent philosophy -- REALISM VS. ANTI-REALISM -- INTUITIONISM AND EMOTIVISM -- REALISM AND MORAL VISION -- MORAL PRAGMATISM -- CHAPTER FIVE Virtue, tradition, and God - Alasdair MacIntyre -- THE ARISTOTELIAN CONSTANT -- THE TURN TO THOMISM -- CRITICAL RECEPTION -- THEOLOGICAL ISSUES -- CHAPTER SIX Communitarianism and its critics -- COMMUNITARIAN THEMES -- LIBERAL REJOINDERS -- TOWARDS A CONVERGENCE? -- THE INCIPIENT LIBERALISM IN THEOLOGY -- CHAPTER SEVEN Conclusion -- Notes -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 CHRISTIAN ETHICAL DISTINCTIVENESS -- 3 ECCLESIAL ETHICS - STANLEY HAUERWAS -- 4 MORAL REALISM IN RECENT PHILOSOPHY -- 5 VIRTUE, TRADITION AND GOD - ALASDAIR MACINTYRE -- 6 COMMUNITARIANISM AND ITS CRITICS -- 7 CONCLUSION -- Select bibliography -- Index.