Includes bibliographical references and index.

Multidimensionality of praxis and Christian ethics -- Moral psychology and critical hermeneutics -- Going deeper : the relation of moral education to Christian ethics -- The dialectic of belonging and distanciation -- Attachment, love, and moral development -- Altruism, feminism, and family in Christian love -- Generativity, ethics, and hermeneutics : revisiting Erik Erikson -- Flanagan's and Damasio's challenge to theological ethics -- Christian ethics and the premoral good -- Violence, authority, and communities of reconstruction.