Ethics

The Story of Secularization can have a Number of Different Starting Points

Jesus Was a Revolutionary Because He Believed God’s Grace Transcended Cultures

There’s a famous thought experiment called the Trolley Problem that goes like this: imagine you […]

Another wonderful piece by Charis Hamiltonius, continuing from last week’s entry on Luther and Paul. […]

One of the oldest words in the history of hospital care is the French term […]

Many pastors feel they’re losing credibility. A greater attention to the Law in human experience could help regain it.

Along with preaching the Gospel, which overwhelms and effaces our faults, there is still, in Luther’s thought at least, the need to preach God’s Law, which – in addition to making sense of the world around us – lets us know how we stand before God, which is always as those who are spiritually impoverished in themselves and in need of continual mercy. As grace comes into focus only when we know we have done wrong, so the Gospel comes into focus only when…

We all have our doubts about Paul Tillich (heresy, philandering, or the embarrassingly earnest Christian […]

A very thought-provoking recent entry in the NY Times column, The Stone, entitled, “Confessions of […]

An illuminating op-ed by professors Mark Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel in the Times, “Stumbling Into […]

In The Reconstruction of Morality (1979 Augsburg edition, as cited last week), Holl brushes up […]

In his lecture on Luther’s earlier ethical views, which was published and then re-worked between […]