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Category: Ethics & Culture
Biblical ethics and contemporary cultural questions.
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Ethical Unity and Moral Failures in the Old Testament
The perceived moral disparity between the Old and New Testaments remains one of the most persistent hermeneutical challenges in biblical studies. Skeptics and some critical scholars cite ethically offensive traits and actions of Old Testament figures—ranging from Abraham’s…
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Beyond Antinomianism and Legalism: An Exegetical and Canonical Critique of “Not Under Law” (Romans 6:14) within the Architecture of God’s Promise-Plan
Romans 6:14—“for you are not under law but under grace”—serves as a central hermeneutical battleground in Pauline soteriology and Christian ethics. For centuries, post-Enlightenment dualism and post-Reformation confessional systematics have frequently isolated this phrase to construct an antinomian…
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Weightier Matters: Jesus and the Paradigm of Biblical Justice
, evaluating their paradigm through the text-immanent, canonical lens of Walter C. Kaiser Jr.’s promise-plan theology and the ancient Hebraic cognitive environment. Contemporary Western theology has frequently privatized Christian ethics, reducing covenantal righteousness to individual moral perfectionism while…
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The Theological Unity of God Across the Testaments
Contemporary biblical scholarship and popular Christian discourse frequently characterize the canon as possessing an irreconcilable theological rupture, contrasting an Old Testament deity of raw wrath and ethical dubiety with a New Testament Father of universal love and grace.
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Delivering Love: Reclaiming Agape as Active Justice within the Architecture of the Promise-Plan
Contemporary Christian ethics has frequently reduced the biblical concept of love (agape) to abstract sentiment, passive self-abnegation, or cold, impartial obligation.
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THE WARRIOR WOMAN OF WISDOM
For generations, Western systematic theology has flattened the concluding poem of Proverbs 31 into a domestic moral ‘checklist’ for submissive wives. However, when we step back into the ancient Hebraic cognitive environment and Second Temple Jewish interpretive horizons,…
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Doing, Not Dualism: The Transforming Initiatives of the Sermon on the Mount within the Promise-Plan of God
Contemporary Christian ethics faces a methodological impasse, oscillating between culturally influenced liberalism and restrictive, rule-based legalism. The influence of post-Enlightenment thought, in its pursuit of moral certainty, has frequently stripped Christian ethics of its teleological core.
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The Economics of the Kingdom and the Exegesis of Impossibility: Luke 18:18–30 as Diagnostic within the Promise-Plan of God
Interpretations of the canonical Gospels frequently suffer from later Western frameworks that reduce the biblical narrative’s historical, socio-economic, and covenantal depth to abstract moral maxims.
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The Ontological Crown of the Cosmic Temple: Reconstructing the Imago Dei against Pragmatic Utilitarianism within the Promise-Plan of God
The contemporary intellectual and theological landscape faces a profound crisis of epistemology and anthropology. Pragmatism shapes much of modern culture. It reduces truth to subjective utility. The slogan “whatever works for you” captures this outlook.
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The Architecture of Covenantal Table Fellowship: Reconstructing Pauline Ethics and Identity within the Promise-Plan of God
The interpretation of Paul’s Epistle to the Romans has long served as a central battleground for competing theological frameworks. Western scholasticism and classical Protestant traditions have frequently imposed post-biblical Hellenistic philosophical categories onto Paul’s writings, severing him from…