The Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics
Events
2009 Tyndale Fellowship Ethics and Social Theology Group on New Testament Ethics.
2008 Book Colloquium on Brian Brock, Singing the Ethos of God
Lunchtime Seminars 2008 explored Alan Storkey’s book Jesus and Politics: Confronting the Powers (Baker, 2005).
Research
KLICE GranteeRecent 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.
Publications
Recommended recent publications:- 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).
Whitefield Briefing
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
Look for articles on biblical and theological ethics in:
Studies in Christian Ethics
Journal of Religious Ethics
Tyndale Bulletin
Themelios
Grove Booklets
Links
Society for the Study of Christian EthicsBible Society
1. Director's commentaries on the Coalition and the Conservative Party
2. Summer 2010 Newsletter
3. Latest issues of Ethics in Brief
4. Director's commentary on McFarlane v Relate case
5. KLICE contributes to 'Studies in Christian Ethics' issue
6. Director's article on role of institutions, in 'The Other Journal'
7. Review article on God and Government
8. Director's Guardian postings
