ABSTRACT
This chapter presents, experiment with, and improvise upon texts and themes in Catholic and Reformation theology and ethics with a view to examining and understanding moral integrity. The chapter reflects on how prudence figures in the life of one who stands before God as both justified and sinful. It offers an interpretation of Christian moral integrity and growth that highlights practices of repentance, renewal, and perseverance. The chapter intends to signal two projects for Christian ethical inquiry. The first concerns the critical theological description of the integrity or wholeness of the moral life, taken here to be a truthful self-understanding that is embodied in one's acts and relations in the world. The second project is thorough and honest attention to the "prospects for rapprochement" between Christian communities in their ethics, and between Protestant and Roman Catholic ethics in particular. Christian practical wisdom is made concrete in one's responsibility to God for the world.
