ABSTRACT
The central question that has surfaced is, how can a ‘thick’ account of Christian ethics resolve disputes with similarly thick accounts in other traditions while retaining its own distinctively Christian criteria for evaluating moral claims? On the basis of the comparison between MacIntyre and O’Donovan we have seen that a theologically specified account of ethics cannot vindicate itself against its rivals on the basis of its philosophical cogency alone. However, what began to emerge, and what I will analyse more closely in this chapter, is how Christians and non-Christians may share an ad hoc commensurability in relation to their social practices.
