This is the third book in which Professor Stanley Hauerwas has developed his "story" approach to Christian ethics. It is a collection of essays, almost all of which appeared in periodicals, written while he was developing his theory more systematically in Vision and Virtue (1974), and in Character and the Christian Life (1975). One of the chapters here, on suicide and euthanasia, was written with Dr. Richard Bondi; two others, on story theology and on Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich, were written with Father David B. Burrell. The essays are arranged so that they explain and defend Hauerwas' thought and then apply it to an array of specific personal, professional, and social situations. It is being reviewed here partly because Hauerwas has been for some time a part of the Journal's intellectual enterprise, but mostly because Hauerwas has something important to say about the ethics of being a lawyer