Christian Ethics

If we are to cope with the tempter, we must not be ignorant of his devices, and we must know the nature and the extent of the forces which he is to bring into the field. - From the chapter, ‘Pride’

“The idea of the seven cardinal virtues is, that among the countless excellences with which human character may be adorned there are seven which overtop the rest, and from which all the rest are derivable.

“This book aims to set forth distinctly Christian ethics… to depict the Christian life from the standpoint of faith and regeneration… to depict the moral life from the religious point of view… The truly ethical life is grounded in the right relation of the individual to God, and that this relation determines his relation to his fellow men.

“Great men are the fire-pillars in this dark pilgrimage of mankind; they stand as heavenly signs, everlasting witnesses of what has been, prophetic tokens of what may still be, the revealed embodied possibilities of human nature.

Joseph Hocking is the Lutheran Librarian’s favorite Christian novelist. During his lifetime he was widely read and greatly beloved throughout the English speaking world. Most of his books deal in some way with the struggles and conflicts of living as a Christian in the modern world.