In the North American context, one trend in introductory Protestant Christian ethics texts is clear: the desire to draw the focus away from moral pronouncements about contemporary ‘issues’ in order to concentrate on what it means to be truly human, that is, to see the world as followers of Christ made in the image of God and to employ forms of moral reasoning appropriate to this vision. The article illuminates the particular emphases displayed in contemporary Protestant ethics texts published in the United States over the past decade as each contributes to this agenda of renewal. In conclusion, I argue that the trend toward eschewing ‘applied’ ends is laudable and yet ambiguous. I suggest this trend may also be tied to the relative gender and racial uniformity of the authors, because what is frequently absent in this collection are the social and political concerns commonly voiced by more marginalized voices.

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回归本源：美国新教伦理中道德形成的复兴

在北美背景下，新教基督教伦理学的介绍性文本中的一个趋势很明显：希望将焦点从关于当代“问题”的道德声明上移开，以便专注于成为真正的人意味着什么，即，看到世界是按照上帝的形象创造的基督的追随者，并采用适合这一愿景的道德推理形式。这篇文章阐明了过去十年在美国出版的当代新教伦理学文本中所展示的特定重点，因为每一个都为这一更新议程做出了贡献。总之，我认为避免“应用”目的的趋势是值得称赞的，但也是模棱两可的。我认为这种趋势也可能与作者的相对性别和种族一致性有关，