Tag: 05 biblical ethics
Ecological Hermeneutics: Reflections on Methods and Prospects for the Future (Horrell, 2014)
Appeals to the Bible in ecotheology and environmental ethics: A typology of hermeneutical stances (Horrell, 2008)
How Green is the Bible (Horrell, 2011)
David Horrell talks to the AHRC about, among other things, the Bible’s role in helping to underpin our cultural assumptions about the environment and our place within it.
What Is Marriage For?: Tracing God’s Plan from Genesis to Revelation (NT Wright, 2015)
“The biblical view of marriage is part of the larger whole of new creation, and it symbolizes and points to that divine plan….Marriage is a sign of all things in heaven and on earth coming together in Christ. That’s why it is a tough calling. But that is why, also, it is central and non-negotiable. That, for me, is what it’s all about”.
Scripture and Christian Ethics (O’Donovan, 2007)
Same-Sex Unions (3): How Is Homosexuality Understood in Scripture, Tradition, and Contemporary Theology? (Humphrey)
The story of Sodom, the “Holiness Code” of Leviticus, the lists of dark behaviours in the epistles, and the more extensive illustration of Romans 1 all register disapproval. The biblical teaching is not unconsciously coloured by cultural norms; rather, it adopts a decisive counter-cultural stand for its time.
Same-Sex Unions (1): What Constitutes A Faithful Reading of Scripture? (Humphrey)
In summary, the Bible presents sexuality as a divinely-prescribed mode of being for human beings, valuable in itself and in its iconic representation of divine-human relations. From the beginning, sexuality entailed interdependence, companionship and procreation; the distortion and strained fulfilment of these good things, subsequent to the Fall, has not completely thwarted the original intent (the celebration of human love in the Song of Solomon, and the explicit blessing of marriage in the New Testament).