Excerpt from The Province of Christian Ethics: An Introductory Lecture, Delivered January 22, 1890
The subject of Christian ethics has not such a recognized position amongst us that some discussion of its permissible scope and proper limits can be deemed superfluous. For more than a century, a series of works upon Christian ethics has been appearing in Germany by both Protestant and Roman Catholic theologians. But there is no English one of modern times that I am aware of, at least treating the subject expressly and systematically. The title itself has probably come to us from abroad, and is comparatively new, and a reason may be demanded for its introduction. There is in the old term theologia moralis, "moral theology," which partly at least covers the same ground, a certain superior dignity, which is attractive. And if we could free this term from the associations which it has acquired in its past use, it might serve to raise before the mind a broader view than the newer name "Christian ethics" does, of the foundations of moral doctrine in religious belief.
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