C2 Christian ethics

Denise and the vacation job

• BMC Medical ethics
• Christian Medical Fellowship
• CMF section devoted to ethics
• Christian Institute briefing on embryo experimentation
• A glossary on biotechnology and genetic engineering

1. Review of Leal’s Debating Homosexuality

2. Homosexuality article

• There are a number of useful resources here
• Gay Christian resources can be found here
• Bridges across the divide
• Walter Wink Homosexuality and the Bible
• Christian resources about homosexuality and AIDS
• Exodus international
• Evangelical Fellowship for Gay and Lesbian Christians
• Courage
• Integrity UK
• True Freedom Trust
• Roy Clements Homophobia in the Church
• RS Web resources and links
• On-line book Christianity and Homosexuality Reconciled by Joseph Adam Pearson
• George Hopper The Reluctant Journey

1. Review of Jenkins’ Cohabitation

• Civitas The Facts Behind Cohabitation
• The legal difference between marriage and cohabitation
• Cohabitation or marriage?

2. Adultery

A number of excellent resources on divorce and (re)marriage are available on David Instone-Brewer’s web site here. He has also written an excellent Grove booklet on Divorce and Remarriage.

See also:

• http://www.probe.org/docs/adultery.html
• http://www.libchrist.com/bible/adultery.html
• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01163a.htm

1. Science and Religion

There are no shortage of articles on science and Christianity in Pespectives on Science and Faith, the journal of the ASA.

The UK counterpart to the ASA is Christians in Science; the CiS journal is Science and Christian Belief.

• SciBel
• Inteviews with those involved in science and religion can be found here.
• Counterbalance has extensive resources.

2. Christian approach to the environment

• The Christian Ecology Link (CEL) is a multi denominational UK Christian movement for people concerned about the environment. It also has a useful list of resources.
• Christian Environmental Studies centre
• A Rocha: an international conservation organisation working to show God’s love for all creation
• The John Ray Initiative (JRI) is an educational charity bringing together scientific and Christian understandings of the environment in a way that can be widely communicated and lead to effective action.”

3. Celia Deane Drummond‘s Genetic Engineering booklet

• Deane Drummond’s university page
• Society, Religion and Technology Project: Genetic Engineering Homepage
• A glossary on biotechnology and genetic engineering
• Biotechnology information page
• The Genetic engineering Network

Assignment 3

On the church and politics:

• Kuyper on Calvinism and politics

• William Temple Where and how the church should interfere in social order

1. Church report on Poverty

2. Right use of and abuse of power

3. Middle axioms

• William Temple

3 Chris Wright’s The People of God and the State

• Chris Wright Old Testament Ethics and the People of God

An anabaptist approach to the State

1. Rom 13: 1-7

• Bible Gateway Romans 13 (NIV)
• Tom Wright on Paul and Caesar: A New reading of Romans
• Tom Wright on God and Caesar: Then and Now

2. Just war

• The Grove Booklet E128 When is War Justified? has a number of useful links here.
• There are excellent resources at religion on-line
• Capt. David M. Barnes Intervention and the Just War Tradition
• Frederic L. Kirgis Pre-emptive Action to Forestall Terrorism
• Keith Pavlischek Just War Principles and Counterrorism
• Keith Pavlischek Just and Unjust War in the Terrorist Age

1. Whistle blowing

• The Whistle blowers home page
• Defining whistle blowing by Simon Longstaff
• What is whistle blowing?

2. Employment ethics

• Work research foundation (WRF)
• WRF Comment
• An interfaith declaration: a code of ethics on International Businees for Christians, Muslims and Jews.
• A Halakhic Corporate Code of Ethics
• Paul Cotton Business and ethics
• Workplace Spirituality: links to business ethics and integrity
• Steve Marr’s Business Proverbs
• Business Reform ‘business news from a Christian worldview’