The aim of this volume is to stretch, inspire, and develop the reader’s conception of
Christian worship in order to challenge, enrich, and transform the reader’s notions of
the form and content of Christian ethics. To suggest that assumptions about Christian
worship could benefit from an overhaul might be regarded as uncontroversial. To
suggest, however, that assumptions about Christian ethics might be altered, and, furthermore,
that that alteration might take place through the exploration of the liturgy,
might come as rather more of a surprise. The purpose of this chapter is to explain why
the authors of this volume have chosen to perceive the discipline of Christian ethics
through the lens of Christian worship, most particularly the Eucharist.