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ET501 Christian Ethics ET525 Ethics of Bonhoeffer ET520 Biblical and Practical Peacemaking ET824/524 Recovery of Jesus in Current Christian Ethics ET832/532 Method for Concreteness in Christian Ethics ET848/548 Philosophy of Justice in an Age of Interaction |
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Course Description. This introduction to
Christian ethics aims to identify and compare fundamental assumptions that
shape how Christians exercise their Christian discipleship, seeking a method
that aids repentance and correction, and growth in wholeness and commitment
to serve Jesus Christ as Lord in all of life and ministry. The agenda will be
set by the Sermon on the Mount, and so issues of violence and peacemaking,
sanctity of life, sexual faithfulness, truth-telling, love, justice
(economic, racial, and ecological), and prayer will be included. |
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Course Description.
Our aim is to understand key motifs of Bonhoeffer's theology and ethics
and be able to explain and evaluate them. We will seek to
understand how Bonhoeffer's ethics and theology are Christ-centered and
mutually interwoven, and how they relate to the struggle of the church
with cultural accommodation in his time and our time. We
will also seek to appreciate Bonhoeffer's spirituality in pursuit of
deepening our own spirituality and identity as Christians. |
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ET520: BIBLICAL AND PRACTICAL PEACEMAKING Course Description. This course has four
objectives: (1) to consider theological rationales for Christian commitment
to nonviolence; (2) to compare Christian ethical approaches to peace and war,
including nonviolence, just war theory, and just peacemaking theory; (3) to
explore the new practices of peacemaking that are radically changing the
postmodern world; and (4) to appropriate the course material by devising a
means by which Jesus' call to Christian peacemaking can be incorporated into
one's spiritual life and ministry. |
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Course Description. This is a
seminar for doctoral students and open to a limited number of master's
level students. The seminar's thesis is that Christian ethics would be
significantly stronger if it paid attention to the way of Jesus Christ.
Surprisingly, most ethicists do not concretely do so. Yet increasingly
interesting resources are at hand. Our objectives are: 1) to increase
knowledge of resources in a sample of canonical exegetical approaches,
historical Jesus approaches, and Christian ethicists whose writing is
strengthened by their methodologically successful attention to Jesus; 2) to
detect Christian ethicists' methodological assumptions that either block or
enhance their ability to write ethics that learns constructively from Jesus;
3) to write a constructive essay that combines accurate interpretation of the
way of Jesus with a critical ethical method. ET824/524 Expanded Course Description (ECD, Fall 2008) |
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Course Description.
I hope that you will develop skill in analyzing the key variables
that shape some leading methods in Christian ethics. Second, that you
will develop a holistic awareness of how these variables work together
to shape the way Christian ethicists do ethics. Third, that these two
analytical and synthesizing skills will help your writing about
concrete questions in Christian ethics. Fourth, that your analysis and
comparison of these variables can build the base for cumulative
sharpening of your own self-critical definition of these variables in
your own method in Christian ethics, and thus your own ethical growth.
Fifth, that together we can discuss how to do Christian ethics within a
tradition, while learning from other traditions. |
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Course Description. [Course formerly titled: Love, Justice, Community, and Postmodern Ethics.] We shall confront some
constraints and constructive directions suggested by a postmodernist and
communitarian criticism of Enlightenment influences on modern ethics. We
shall analyze Michael Walzer's argument for how to
make ethical arguments in the postmodern context, and use him as a comparison
basis for analyzing other approaches. We shall seek to develop a
constructive, historically situated understanding of love and justice that
gives concrete guidance to community-formation and to the presently changing
global economic environment and its impact on local communities. |
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Support Information. Many of the documents available on this page are in Adobe Acrobat’s Portable Document Format (PDF). PDF files can be viewed on both Windows and MacIntosh systems. To view PDF files you need to install Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded free by clicking on the Acrobat Reader icon on the lefthand frame. If you have any problems accessing files on this page, you can go to the ATC Computer Lab on the 4th floor of McAllister Library to ask for assistance or to access these files using the lab computers. |
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