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Category: Ethics & Culture
Biblical ethics and contemporary cultural questions.
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Gospel Ethics in Philippians
Contemporary Christian ethics faces a crisis of authority, coherence, and identity when moral reflection is detached from redemptive narrative and reduced to post-Enlightenment decisionism.
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The Three Pillars of Love and Divine Redemption: Deconstructing “Divine Abuse” through Hebraic Covenantal Soteriology and the Promise-Plan of God
Popular Western homiletics sometimes present an “angry deity” model of atonement—labeled “divine abuse” by Eitan Bar and “cosmic child abuse” by several critics—in which the Father inflicts retributive violence upon an innocent Son in order to satisfy a…
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Theological Anthropology and Human Cultural Identity
This essay constructs a theological account of human cultural identity—operationalized across vocation, race and ethnicity, and disability—by reading Joshua R. Farris’s treatment of culture in
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The Eternal Jubilee: Isaiah’s Prophetic Blueprint for the Beatitudes within the Promise-Plan of God
This essay locates the Matthean Beatitudes Matt 5 3 12 within their Isaianic and Levitical horizon rather than treating them as an unattainable moral ceiling or a postponed millennial code.
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Sacrificial Sanctity: Levitical Cleansing, Cultic Purgation, and the Hebraic Logic of Atonement within the Promise-Plan of God
Western Christian soteriology has often read the Mosaic sacrificial system through Latinate legal categories and post-Reformation forensic frameworks, treating animal sacrifice primarily as a transactional, penal mechanism that manages individual moral guilt.
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The Architecture of Discipleship: Moral Agency, Hermeneutics, and Covenantal Fidelity in Kingdom Ethics within the Promise-Plan of God
Contemporary theological ethics faces a crisis of authority and coherence inherited from post-Enlightenment rationalism and the fragmentation of moral discourse. Modern ethics frequently degrades into decisionism—the reduction of moral reflection to isolated, crisis-driven quandary-solving detached from teleological purpose,…
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The Beloved Community: Corporate Imago Dei, Embodied Reconciliation, and Vocational Co-Laboring within the Promise-Plan of God
This essay examines the corporate, embodied, and vocational dimensions of the imago Dei through Carmen Joy Imes’s account of “the Beloved Community” in Being God’s Image 2023, ch. 9 , locating that account within Walter C. Kaiser Jr.’s…
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Christological Metaphysics: The Theological Foundation of Christian Ethics within the Promise-Plan of God
Christian ethics faces a crisis of authority when moral commands are severed from redemptive identity and from the canon’s own plot. This essay argues that evangelical moral reasoning must begin with
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The Two Trees in the Cosmic Temple: Royal Priesthood, Moral Autonomy, and the Architecture of the Promise-Plan
Contemporary Christian systematic theology frequently interprets the primeval narratives of Genesis 1 3 through post-biblical Western categories, reducing the cosmic architecture of creation and the drama of human failure to legal contracts or biological mechanics.
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The Sacredness of Life as a Cardinal Ethical Norm: An Incarnational, Ontological, and Promise-Plan Synthesis
This study constructs a biblical-theological defense of the sacredness of human life as a cardinal ethical norm in Christian ethics. Grounded primarily in Chapter 8 (“So Much Value: The Sacredness of Life”) of David P. Gushee and Glen…