Christian ethics in secular society / Philip Edgcumbe Hughes.

"A Canterbury book."--Jacket.

Includes index.

Chapter 1. Knowing and doing -- Christian ethics and secular ethics -- The ethical implications of Christian theology -- The human situation -- Chapter 2. Conscience -- God's Vicar -- Conscience and the fall of man -- The divine will -- The weak and the strong conscience -- The moral argument of Immanuel Kant -- The moral argument of C. S. Lewis -- Chapter 3. Law and love -- Law and the conscience -- Love unopposed to law -- Merit and reward -- Unevangelical developments -- Casuistry -- Chapter 4. The new morality -- Anthropological ethics -- Situational ethics -- Utilitarianism -- Chapter 5. The new confessional -- Freudian Psychoanalysis -- Jung and psychotherapy -- Chapter 6. The ethics of humanism -- Man for himself -- Humanistic religion -- Transactional analysis -- Behaviorism -- Sociobiology -- The cult of selfism -- Crime and punishment -- Capital punishment --

Chapter 7. Eugenic utopianism -- Technology and modern maladies -- Death control -- Platutopiaspian state -- Programs for the control of behavior -- Mind over matter -- The Christian perspective -- Chapter 8. Sexual ethics -- Sexuality and the image of God -- The scope and purpose of sexuality -- The structure of the family -- Divorce -- Celibacy -- The breakup of the family -- Homosexuality -- Abortion -- Chastity -- Chapter 9. The Christian and the state -- The origin of civil government -- The Christian in a pagan state -- The atheistic state -- The Christian and warfare -- The just war -- Conscientious objection -- The international Christian -- Selected bibliography -- Index of authors and subjects -- Index of scriptural references.