Ethics

Clergy ethics and sexual abuse

This article is part 1 of 2 in the series Ethics.

In seminary, I received no ethical training. My former denomination provided no ethical training and no ethical guidelines. Numerous times when I have inquired about such policies, I was either ignored, told that unethical behavior will not occur in our denomination/diocese, or have been given ambiguous information that provides no real guidance. The general area …

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Foundations of ethics

This article is part 2 of 2 in the series Ethics.

“Ethics is the study of how humans ought to live as informed by the Bible and Christian convictions.” So wrote Stanley Grenz in his book The Moral Quest. This is the Christian view. Both the Christian and the secularist draw on the ideas of the Greek philosophers in understanding ethics. Western thinking on the subject …

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