Doing the Truth Author:James A. Pike This is a book about the relationship between faith and action, between believing and doing. A fresh analysis of Christian ethics, it explores the relationship between the mighty acts of God and the charge to live as becomes them, taking into account the insights of modern depth psychology as well as those of the age-old Christian heritage. — Why... more » does man depart from the right? What practical difference does it make that Christian ethics exist? Exactly how much influence does Christian ethics exert upon a Christian's political convictions, his business decisions, his sexual relations, his family life? "Doing the Truth" makes clear that Christian ethics is not simply a lofty set of abstract principles, but a practical, vital way of deciding things, based upon the unique motivations for the Christian life.
Man's freedom to choose between right and wrong is limited. But what is of immediate importance is a real freedom to choose His ultimate direction and aims. "Doing the Truth" is a book about the responsibility that this freedom creates and about the difference made by the fact that God is.« less