What is it about?
I offer some principles for capturing Christians’ everyday engagement with ethical problems. I define ethics as the domain of human activity that seeks to answer the question ‘what should I do?’ in relation to immediate dilemmas and lifelong commitments. I suggest that scholars look for ethics in the hard choices and commitments that constitute our relationships with our families, friends, neighbours, distant others, and oppressors.
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Why is it important?
Claims to moral authority are embedded in wider social and political power structures, and often reflect the interests of those who wish to reinforce their own position of power. So, I think, scholars should avoid accepting the claims of Christian institutions as spokespersons for 'ordinary' Christians.
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I take sexual ethics as my case study to discuss the sometimes surprising ways Christians talk about ethics - but the ethical questions with which Christians are concerned are broader that this topic.
Dr Eleanor Tiplady Higgs
Brunel University
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This page is a summary of: Ethics, January 2020, Bloomsbury Academic,
DOI: 10.5040/9781350043411.ch-021.
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