Religious ethics is one of the last strongholds of liberal Protestantism in the academy. Go and Do Likewise Go and Do Likewise: Jesus and Ethicsby William C. Spohn Continuum, 1999 240 pp.; $19.95 ...

This collection of 36 individual contributions treats numerous moral issues from the perspective of what might be termed liturgical ethics—the view that the Christian moral life ought to be grounded ...

A meme is making the rounds lately. When I first saw it, I felt sick. How could someone who professes to be a follower of Jesus have such a deep misunderstanding of the very nature of Christian ethics ...

If the mass killings in Orlando and in Charleston have anything in common it’s that both the dance club and the church were thought to be “safe space.” The horrors that unfolded in both places tell us ...

Introductory courses and treatises can test even accomplished teachers and writers. It is not easy to simplify without compromising, to be comprehensive without exceeding one's limits. The challenge ...

Same-sex marriage is very much in the news these days. It has been a hot topic among the churches of the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ since our annual meeting last October. At ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Founded in 1973 to "assist in shaping and locating the advanced edge of scholarly work in religious ethics." The Journal of ...

In 1934, a group of Christians in Nazi Germany signed their names to the "Barmen Declaration," a statement opposing Nazi ideology as antithetical to the Gospel. Eighty years later, Christians in the ...

Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring / Summer 2009), pp. 153-170 (18 pages) ALTHOUGH THE TERM "BIOETHICS" LITERALLY MEANS "LIFE ETHICS," there is a frequent ...

Peter Singer is not someone one would call a natural conversation partner for a Catholic moral theologian. He supports abortion, infanticide and euthanasia, to cite only a few glaring differences of ...