The Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics
Biblical & Theological Ethics
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Resources
Publications
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
A Colloquium on ‘Biblical Law’ will take place on 19-20 March 2012 at the Divinity Faculty, University of Cambridge. The event is co-sponsored by KLICE and the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme. It is 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. The event is inter-disciplinary - of special interest to theologians and lawyers - and inter-faith. Confirmed plenary speakers include 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) will respond to the plenary speakers. Six other experts will present panel papers. More information will be available soon.
Past
'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. Colloquium on Biblical Law will take place on 19-20 March. Click here for booking form.
2. Jonathan Chaplin writes on a setback for secularism.
3. Latest KLICE News published for January and Comment for February.
4. Video: Director interviewed on PM’s speech on ‘Christian Britain’.