Moral Choices

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Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics is written by Scott B. Rae. Dr Rae currently teaches at Talbot School of Theology as an associate professor of biblical studies and Christian ethics. The book in review is a terrific introduction to the discipline of ethics. The author's purpose for writing the book serves to inform the reader in brevity of all the areas that make up ethics. Dr. Rae's thesis is essentially answered... Read Full Review

It has been said that we have come as far as we have only because we stand on the shoulders of giants. One of the strengths of ethics when studied as part of a survey of Western civilization has been the discipline's emphasis on consulting the accumulated wisdom of the past. However, in doing so one must not fail to apply these principles to the situations arising in our own time. `Talbot School of Theology Professor Scott... Read Full Review

Rae notes in his introduction that "the moral life and moral decision making are the focal points of this book." He has done an admirable job in this regard. While the book is written from a Christian ethicist perspective as an introduction to ethics, his evaluations of different topics are mostly treated with well thought out and logically coherent explanations. He spends two entire chapters giving an honest look at alternative... Read Full Review

I found this book when I was browsing through a bookstore in Washington DC a few weeks ago. There were recommendations by Francis J. Beckwith and J.P. Moreland on the book; needless to say these are some of the most learned men in the Christian intellectual world. The book is about ethics (the process of determining right and wrong) and morality (the actual content of right and wrong). Scott B. Rae, in addition to being an... Read Full Review