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The Conscience Trial
Hardcover
Series: The Cross Examination, Book 9
Mystery & ThrillerChristian Fiction
Publisher: Alfred Basta
Published: Jun 20 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ethics is not a body of rules. Ethics is a doctrine of the body. And the body has meaning. The body's meaning is given. It is not constructed.
In the United States of 2045, the ideological landscape is strictly policed by the Office of Scientific Integrity under the harrowing Conscience Harm provisions of federal law. Any public teaching on the human person, sexual ethics, or reproductive morality alleged to inflict sustained psychological harm on protected classes is deemed a civil violation.
Fifty-three-year-old Dr. Christian Cross, a brilliant professor of apologetics at a small Christian college in Tennessee and a grieving widower, finds himself targeted for the eighth time. This time, the domain is moral apologetics. The prosecution, led by the formidable, Oxford-trained barrister Bram Frey, intends to systematically dismantle the historic Christian moral tradition, putting two thousand years of history-from the Inquisition and the slave Bibles to the Crusades and wars of religion-on trial as inherently cruel and incompatible with human dignity.
As the battle lines are drawn in a federal courtroom in Knoxville, the trial strikes devastatingly close to home for Dr. Cross. In the span of a single day, his fourteen-year-old daughter Lily confronts the real-world complexities of identity through a hurting friend, and his seventeen-year-old son Eli is forced to publicly debate the con side of his father's lifelong convictions.
Can a clean conscience triumph over a court orchestrated to retire traditional faith?
The Conscience Trial is a masterfully crafted, high-stakes legal thriller that seamlessly fuses rigorous philosophical, theological, and metaethical discourse with a deeply moving, intimate story of grief, parental love, and unwavering conviction. Drawing on the profound legal and historical complexities of natural law, teleology, and the human person, Dr. Alfred Basta delivers a powerful standalone novel that challenges the modern world to re-examine the very source of its morality.
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