Morality and beyond

by Paul Tillich.
New York : Harper & Row, 1st edition, c.1963.

Paul Tillich’s classic work confronts the age-old question of how the moral is related to the religious. In particular, Tillich addresses the conflict between reason-determined ethics and faith-determined ethics and shows that neither is dependent on the other but that each alone is inadequate. Instead, Tillich reveals to us the gift that came with the arrival of Christ: a new reality that offers a power of being in which we can participate and out of which true thought and right action are possible.

Contents: The religious dimension of the moral imperative –The religious source of the moral demands –The religious element in moral motivation –The transmoral conscience –Ethics in a changing world