This one-volume history of Christian ethics is the only comprehensive resource currently available to survey major thinkers, movements, and issues from the early church to the present. Topics discussed are: the legacies of Christian ethics, the ethics of early Christianity, the Reformation and Enlightenment, eighteenth and nineteenth-century rationalism and evangelism, Christian ethics in the twentieth century, and Christian ethics toward the third millennium.

This is a revision of a text first published in 1986. Urban introduces students to the historical roots of modern Christian doctrines and the links between them. Each chapter is devoted to a specific issue in the Christian theology; this edition adds two new chapters, on the Sacraments, and Church and Ministry. The Epilogue has also been revised to deal with contemporary issues such as women's ordination and the relationship between Christianity and other religions.

A tantárgy célja, hogy a hallgató képessé váljon az emberi cselekedetek motivációinak teológiai és etikai elemzésére, felismerve, hogy ezek az emberi gondolkodásmódban, világképben és értékrendben gyökereznek. A kurzus során a hallgató elsajátítja az erkölcstan alapfogalmait, valamint megismeri a keresztény – különösen az unitárius – erkölcstani gondolkodás főbb kérdésköreit és problématerületeit.