This thirty three papers in this volume attempt to examine the key aspects of Christian ethics, with reflections from India. Addressing the major issues concerning fundamental moral theology, the book discusses at length the challenge of doing ethics in the context of poverty and pluralism, the Christological ground of moral theology, the difference between ethics and morality, the freedom within the Church, secular humanism, the tribal morality, and Islamic ethics.

It also examines the specific moral issues related to social justice, marriage and sexuality, human life, environmental and bio-ethics, and social ethics. A discussion on the implications of faith on human development, Catholic social teaching on human rights, violence in the North-east India, the caste-based political mobilization, and the place of women in Catholic teaching finds place in the book as well.