The Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics
Biblical & Theological Ethics
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Resources
Publications
- 'Living Witness: Explorations in missional ethics' encourages reflection and conversation that will feed the life of the body of Christ. 'Missional ethics' concerns all the ways in which Christian ethical practice flows out of, supports and advances the wider mission of the church to proclaim the gospel. Contributions by seven KLICE linked writers, including Jonathan Chaplin and Joshua Hordern.
Audio/Video
- Is Christian Forgiveness Conditional? - David John Sandifer
- Moral Goods: A Common Denominator for Old Testament Ethics - Jonathan V. Rowe
- Knowing God and Loving Others: A Biblical account of Christian knowing - Justin Thacker
- Greed as False Religion - Brian Rosner
- The Humanisation of Slavery in Old Testament Law - David L Baker
- What Role Ought the Bible to Play in Christian Ethics? ‘Developing a Hermeneutic’ vs. ‘Immersion in Tradition’ - Brian Brock
- The Community Context of Biblical Sexual Ethics - Jonathan Burnside
- To Veil or Not to Veil: Multiculturalism and the Bible - Gordon Wenham
Media
- Jonathan Chaplin articles in the Guardian.
Events
Future
Past
Colloquium on ‘Biblical Law’
- Co-sponsored by KLICE and the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme. Based around a new book by Jonathan Burnside entitled God, Justice and Society: Aspects of Law and Legality in the Bible (Oxford University Press, 2011). Dr. Burnside is Reader in Biblical Law at the University of Bristol and chair of the KLICE Advisory Council. Plenary speakers included Professor Bernard Jackson (Liverpool Hope University, formerly University of Manchester), Professor Gordon McConville (University of Gloucester) and Sheikh Michael Mumisa (University of Cambridge). Jonathan Burnside and Professor Nicholas Aroney (Faculty of Law, University of Queensland) responded to the plenary speakers.
'Tyndale Fellowship: Ethics and Social Theology Group on New Testament Ethics.', 2009
- ‘Continuity, discontinuity and hope: the contribution of New Testament eschatology to a distinctively Christian environmental ethos’, Dr Jonathan Moo
- Singing the Ethos of God, Brian Bock
Research
Recent KLICE grantee Jonathan Rowe successfully defended his thesis, ‘Michal, Contradicting Values: Understanding the Moral Dilemma Faced by Saul’s Daughter’, in the University of St Andrews in December 2008. It will be published as Michal's Moral Dilemma: A Literary, Anthropological and Ethical Interpretation (LHBOTS; New York, T&T Clark, forthcoming). He was the first KLICE grantee to complete a thesis. Since October 2008 he has been Executive Director of the Seminario Evangélico Unido de Teología, El Escorial, Spain. His article ‘Dancing With Elephants: Accountability in Cross-Cultural Christian Partnerships’ appeared in the April 2009 issue of Missiology. An abstract of his thesis appeared in Tyndale Bulletin 60.2 (2009), 301-304.
Recommended Reading
- A New Twist in Secular Moral Philosophy, and its Implications for Christian Ethics and Apologetics - David C. Lahti
- You were what you wore in Roman law - Bruce W Winter
- Written in Stone. The Ten Commandments Then & Now - David Baker
Books
- European Journal of Theology (November 2009) special issue on Brian Brock, Singing the Ethos of God.
- Hilary Marlow, Biblical Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Ethics(Oxford University Press, 2009).
- Jamie A. Grant and Dewi A. Hughes, Transforming the World: The gospel and social responsibility (Apollo 2009) (papers of the 2006 Tyndale Fellowship Ethics and Social Theology Group meeting).
- Ellen F. Davis, Scripture, Culture and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible (Cambridge 2009) (Hulsean lectures 2005-6, Cambridge University Divinity Faculty).
- Catholic Social Teaching Gateway here.
Links
For articles:
Other:
1. New book on 'Living Witness: Explorations in missional ethics'.
2. KLICE Comment on Missional Ethics.
3. KLICE News May 2012 here.
4. Summer Schools 2012: Nurses, Doctors and Lawyers.
5. Director on religion and public reason in new law journal