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‘Moral life is a long march along the borderline between indifferenciation and indifference. Indifferenciation, because each person and each society conserves a negative nostalgia for the faithless, lawless world they emerged from indifference, because man, a sinner, is constantly tempted to close in on the self, assured and incapable of allowing himself to be concerned by the mystery of the Other.' ‘Compter sur Dieu' assembles studies - substantially modified or rearranged for this publication - of moral theology, published in reviews and works of theology and ethics between 1983 and 1991. The different subjects (specificity of Christian morals, the role of the Magisterium, compassion, conversion...) are approached in constant dialogue with contemporary anthropology. They are divided into three themes: fundamental moral questions (especially norms and evil) an ethical vision of educational practice an ethical examination of certain realities of spiritual life (such as celibacy or conversion).