““since our fallenness has limited, perhaps even obliterated, our cognitive access to any divine ordinances that might have been discernible in the original creation, our only option is to create communities that follow the way of Jesus as set forth in the Sermon on the Mount and as displayed in his own radical willingness to take up the cross. In this kind of ethic, the only available revealed guidance for living the good life is to be found in our moral exemplar, Jesus of Nazareth. In becoming his disciples, and by immersing ourselves in the practices of Christian community, we can cultivate the virtues that he displayed in his earthly ministry. And””
