Clough, David2011-02-182011-02-182005-08-26Aldershot: Ashgate, 20050754636305http://hdl.handle.net/10034/122267Used by permission of the Publishers from 'Introduction', in Ethics is crisis by David Clough (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), pp. xi-xix. Copyright © 2005.This work depicts the contemporary crisis in Christian ethical thought and offers a constructive proposal for responding to this crisis. The constructive proposal draws on a new and persuasive interpretation of the ethics of Karl Barth developed in the central section of the book. The aims of the work are three-fold: (1) to draw attention to the failure of Christian ethicists to speak in a way that can be heard in contemporary ethical debate; (2) to demonstrate that Karl Barth’s ethical thought should be interpreted dialectically, in the light of his response to the crisis of the Römerbrief; (3) to make a proposal for how the crisis of speechlessness in contemporary Christian ethics may be overcome, drawing on this dialectical interpretation of Barth’s ethics.enKarl BarthChristian ethicsBook