Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Kantian Ethics
1: Kant and the Moral Demand
2: God's Suppplement
3: Moral Faith
Part II: Human Limits
4: Puffing up the Capacity
5 Centrality:
6: Reducing the Demand
7: Substitutes for God's Assistance
Part III: God's Assistance
8: Repentance
9: Forgiveness
10: God's Assistance
Bibliography
Index of Biblical Passages
General Index

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Joint winner of the of the best book exhibiting original Christian scholarship 1997, awarded by the Institute for Advanced Christian Studies

Reviews

`an impressive book'
The Expository Times
`This book is a very careful piece of moral philosophy. Anyone interested in the intersection of religion and moral values should find food for thought.'
Mark R Talbot, Wheaton College, Journal of Beliefs and Values
`this careful, rigorous contribution to the series of Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics looks prudently round the corners, investigates the blind alleys, turns over the stones, and leaves the reader intellectually stretched and well instructed, if not greatly inspired. Hare's is a worthy undertaking to remind us of the Christian dimensions to our philosophical traditions, to demonstrate "the credibility of a God who loves us enough both to demand a high
standard from us and to help us to meet it". It is heavy, steady, rigorous, demanding reading.'
The Ven. David Atkinson, Archdeacon of Lewisham, Church Times
`With the book under review written by the son of a famous father, it is fascinaitng to observe their very different approaches ... the most impressive section of the book lies in his treatment of the impact of Christ on ethics, where a strong defence of the notion of incorporation is offered, and he gives a good critique of Richard Swinburne on forgiveness.'
David Brown, University of Durham, Theology
`This is a worthwhile book which interestingly ventilates the problem of the gap between what we ought to do and what we can do. It would be useful as a teaching book ... John Hare is clear-minded and fair-minded, and he writes plainly and lucidly. He aims at being accessible ... and succeeds remarkably well, not only in presenting his own arguments, but in expounding the thought of other people ... The book is practical in giving plenty of applications and
examples.'
Helen Oppenheimer, Journal of Theological Studies, Vol. 48, No. 1 Apr '97
`This book is a very careful piece of moral philosophy ... Anyone interested in the intersection of religion and moral values should find food for thought.'
Journal of Beliefs and Values
`This is a singular contribution to the reintroduction of Kant's ethics into the contemporary debates in philosophical and theological ethics.'
Choice
`A fine argument-packed book ... an informed, skillful and persuasive interpreter of Kant's ethics ... This unusual, resourceful, well-argued and wide-ranging book on a topic of manifest importance should be bought or ordered for the library, and read.'
Theology in Scotland
`All told, this book can give anyone who works through it a better grasp of what it means to be moral and of how Christianity addresses the gap that even most secular philosophers find to yawn between what we are and what we ought to be.'
First Things