Christian Ethics

Contributed by scholars from diverse traditions and perspectives around the world, this article evidences both unifying and diversifying impulses in Christian ethics and moral thinking.Christian ethics is understood as both lived experience and academic study reflecting upon practice, deploying moral norms, engaging present-day issues, and more.Major topics include climate change, the body, peacemaking, and more.Consideration is also paid to the powerful the role of the Bible in the everyday lives and decision-making of Christian people.Persistent emphases include God's bias to the poor and how God's gift of the earth to all in common requires human beings to ensure that those things necessary for life are available to all, including future generations.Christian ethics is shown to be distinctive because it follows from belief in Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God, and capable of argumentation without direct reference to revelation.Together, and in a conscious effort to reflect the polyphony of Pentecost (Acts 2:4-6), the contributors find Christian ethics to be an academic discipline of both sorrow and hope.