The Divine Imperative
A Study in Christian Ethics
by Emil Brunner
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(October 2025)
ISBN: 9780227180877
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In Divine Imperative, Brunner lays the groundwork for a Christian conception of the moral life.
“What ought we to do?” is the guiding question of Emil Brunner’s The Divine Imperative. Here this age-old question is taken up by Brunner and is answered in light of his Reformed Christian theology. Dubbed a “Protestant Ethic”, The Divine Imperative is a systematic ethical treatise, and for Brunner the first to be centred around the Reformed faith. Here Brunner lays the groundwork for a Christian conception of the moral life in a world where morality itself is often doubted or denied. Animated by the need to respond to an encroaching moral relativism, where many believe that there is no true Right nor Wrong, no true Good nor Evil, Brunner provides an answer to the problem of ethics and morality in the modern age. In doing so, Brunner engages with a wide range of theoretical and practical issues: from philosophy’s rationalisation of morality, to the crisis of marriage, to the task of the Christian living under capitalism.
Emil Brunner (1889-1966) was one of the leading theologians of the twentieth century, and helped pave the course of modern Protestant theology. He was Professor of Systematic and Practical Theology at the University of Zurich and lectured around the world. His extensive writings published by James Clarke & Co. include The Letter to the Romans and Dogmatics.
- By (author) Emil Brunner
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