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Category: Ethics & Culture
Biblical ethics and contemporary cultural questions.
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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…
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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.