309 Introduction To Christian Ethics
Level 3 Course
The course aims to develop a simple threefold method for making ethical decisions. This method is applied to a variety of ethical issues with examples contemporary ethical dilemmas, and brief explanations of the issues involved and the most important contrasting viewpoints.
You are encouraged to assess important biblical, scientific, sociological information relevant to deciding specific ethical issues and to analyse ethical issues with respect to principles, motives and results. We hope that by the end of this course you will also be able to examine your own presuppositions, and have an appreciation of, and therefore appropriate respect for, viewpoints different from your own.
The main aim of the course is that you will be able to apply your learning to important ethical issues which we encounter in mission and ministry today.
This is a 10 Block course
Course costs:
£70, or a cost of a light lunch a week
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Introduction to Christian Ethics Contents
Introduction
1: INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIAN ETHICS
1 Three routes to ethical decision making
2 The three routes and the Bible
3 The three routes and abortion
4 The three routes and euthanasia
2: MAKING MORAL DECISIONS AS A CHRISTIAN
1 A God-centred approach to ethics
2 The Euthyphro Dilemma ~ why we need a God-centred ethic1
3 Using the Bible in ethical decision-making
4 The image of God: implications and problems
3: RULES WHICH (NEARLY) EVERYONE CAN ACCEPT
1 Natural law: the theory and its critics
2 Conscience: can you trust it?
3 Natural law and birth control
4 Natural law and birth enhancement
4: SEXUALITY: WORKING OUT RIGHTS AND WRONGS
1 Human sexuality in God's scheme
2 Human sexuality: use and abuse
3 Homosexuality: being and doing
4 Censorship and pornography
5: MARRIAGE - MORAL DILEMMAS
1 What is marriage?
2 Cohabitation as an alternative to marriage
3 Divorce and remarriage
4 The ‘lesser evil’ principle
6: STEWARDSHIP AND WORK
1 Relating to the environment
2 Issues concerning the use of drugs
3 Work: biblical insights
4 Unemployment and industrial relations
7: THE LAW THEN AND NOW
1 Applying Old Testament Law today
2 The Ten Commandments and the Law
3 The Sabbath and Sunday
4 Jesus' approach to rules and regulations
8: LOVE AND OUR NEIGHBOUR
1 Love in the Old Testament
2 Loving your neighbour as yourself
3 A closer look at Situation Ethics
4 Wealth and poverty
9: LIVING TOGETHER - LOVE AND JUSTICE (1)
1 Human rights
2 Responses to Racial Differences
3 The Christian and the state: a biblical perspective
4 The Christian and the state: a historical perspective
10: LIVING TOGETHER - LOVE AND JUSTICE (2)
1 Crime, punishment and love
2 Capital punishment
3 War and peace
4 Review and choice of moral issue