As we study the Bible, we need to learn biblical ethics. By learning biblical ethics, we can live the godly lifestyle that God wants us to live. “An Introduction to Biblical Ethics: Walking In The Way of Wisdom” shows what we need to do in our lives. It shows us the attitudes and the behaviors we need to develop. Biblical ethics cannot be taken out of our Christian lifestyles. We need to let biblical ethics be a profound influence in the Christian culture we were brought up in as we continue to seek God. By follwing the ethical standards the Bible lays out, we can truly learn the ways of wisdom as we walk in it.
An Introduction to Biblical Ethics: Walking in the Way of Wisdom, Third Edition
By Robertson McQuilkin & Paul Copan / InterVarsity Press
What should we do or not do? What attitudes, behavior and qualities are good? Can we be good without God? What is the highest good, the purpose of human existence? These are the questions the study of ethics seeks to answer.
Unlike many approaches to ethics, this book foundationally turns to Scripture, going only as far as Scripture itself goes. The result is a biblical ethics that not only addresses the life of love and wisdom to be lived out by Christians as virtuous persons, but as Christians in community, in society and in a world of God’s creation.
Key preliminary considerations of love, law, sin and virtue are given their due in this thoroughly revised and updated text. The bulk of the work is then organized around the Ten Commandments and ethical themes springing from them–loving God (commandments 1-4) and loving others (commandments 6-10).
This new edition includes added material on
- ethical alternatives such as relativism, social contract, utilitarianism and evolutionary ethics
- restoring the divine image through Christ and the recovery of our vocation as priest-kings
- the seven deadly sins as well as the cardinal virtues vs. theological virtues
- a new personal narrative from McQuilkin about his marriage, especially after his wife became disabled
- end-of-life ethics, stem-cell research, genetics and technology, and other bioethical issues such as plastic surgery and surrogate motherhood
- technology and its depersonalizing effects as well as helping the poor
- animal rights and sexual ethics
- the church’s engagement in society to change societal structures and how Christians can make a difference in the media.
We need biblical ethics in our lives. We cannot live without them. By incorporating biblical ethics in our lives, we can live the righteous lifestyle God wants us to live. Start making biblical ethics a priority in your life today!!!
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