Critical Issues in Christian Ethics

Dear Colleagues,

Christian ethics first acknowledges its grounding in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, with particular attention to the implications of this content for moral decisions and conduct. However, there is further acknowledgement that the unique revelation of God in Jesus Christ brings a certain preeminence to the role of Jesus among other moral examples.  When the discussion is broadened to include religious ethics, we must also ask about the relationship between Christian and religious ethics, and whether that relationship involves convergence or divergence between essential principles. There are also questions about methodology in the wider field of Christian and religious ethics. What approaches to ethical decision are compatible and incompatible from a specifically Christian perspective? What approaches to ethical decisions are compatible and incompatible from a generally religious perspective?  What are the dilemmas, conundrums, challenges, conflicts, tensions, and contradictions that persist in the work of ethicists, especially those who labor within Christian and religious circles? What biblical, historical, theological, and philosophical themes come into play?  What are the previously unseen problems that should no longer be ignored?  Our aim in this volume is to highlight critical ethical issues in a Christian and religious context that summon attention in this era of ideological clashes, the rejection of authority, and cultural change. At the same time, we seek a path forward on perennial questions. What are the challenges for a specifically Christian ethical perspective in a post-Christendom era? Whether we speak in a specifically Christian or generally religious context, what are the warrants for ethical decisions? What grounds of authority are there for ethical guidance? What are the justifications for ethical education? What is at stake in this whole discussion? We invite contributions from scholars with insights to offer at various degrees of specificity and various levels of focus upon these and related issues.

Prof. Dr. Kenneth L. Waters
Prof. Dr. Richard Rose
Prof. Dr. Sandra Morgan
Guest Editors

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