Elmar Nass makes a plea for Christian social ethics. He shows that social ethics based on Christian tradition is a moral compass that provides orientation in all social issues. His classification addresses the pressing challenges of our time and contributes to a global understanding of ethical principles.

Karl-Josef Laumann, Minister of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) and Chairman for Germany of the Christian Democratic Employees' Association (CDA)

This Christian social-ethical milestone on the justification and huge challenges of a free social order convincingly profiles theology as a social science with global appeal.

Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki, Archbishop of Cologne

Elmar Nass has written an important book for our present and future world. In the face of the turbulence, global challenges, and worldwide violence and crises, we need orientations for a social and ethical togetherness—beyond religious boundaries!

Silke Geithner, Rector of the Protestant University of Applied Sciences, Dresden, Germany

"Elmar Nass provides a comprehensive, fundamental work, continuing the traditional natural law approach but also exploring its suitability for the future. He provides important standards for the assessment of current problems . . . This is a book that is likely to have a significant impact on the scholarly discussion of social ethics in the coming years.”

Christian Müller, Professor of Economics at the Center for Interdisciplinary Economic Research (CIW) at the University of Münster

“In a time when Christian ethics is losing ground in society, this book offers a superb approach of a qualitative ethics of principles and values for the social order in the Catholic tradition. It argues for a liberal order that takes into account alternative worldviews and that gives orientation for tangible social issues.”

Johannes Eurich, Chair of the International Society for the Study of Diaconia and Christian Social Practice and Professor at Heidelberg University, Germany

“Reading this book makes it immediately clear why a liberal social order is based on well-founded values that it does not generate by itself. The Christian ideas of man, dignity and society are presented as convincing foundations of our society, on the basis of which many very concrete social questions can be answered in a very insightful an inviting way.”

Dr. Franz-Josef Overbeck, Roman Catholic Bishop of Essen, Military Bishop for the German Armed Forces, Bishop Delegate and VP of COMECE, and Chair of the Commission for Doctrine and Faith of the German Bishops Conference