If God is the author of our moral code, how can we challenge it? Has increasing secularism eroded traditional moral systems? Bishop Richard Holloway challenges our assumptions and offers provocative solutions to these questions.

Reacting against those who use God to back up their own prejudices, Bishop Holloway argues that we should see morality as human. Like the civil law, it is historically evolved, it rests on consent, and it is being continuously renegotiated.