The Decalogue and a Human Future: The Meaning of the Commandments for Making and Keeping Human Life Human

Building on a long career in the field of Christian ethics, Paul Lehmann examines the role of the Ten Commandments in Christian life, contending the Decalogue describes rather than prescribes human life as God would have us live it. Lehmann is the author of Ethics in a Christian Context and Transfiguration of Politics.