Christian Social Ethics

3 credits · Graduate School

This course is a critique of selected readings from contemporary Christian social ethical perspectives. We will employ historical and ethical analyses of case studies in order to gain some orientation to doing ethical reasoning on current perennial social issues and pursue reading in the literature of the field. The fundamental problems guiding our inquiry will be: (1) the way in which each account interprets morality as the relation between justice and good; (2) the social theoretical assumptions and views that make each of these accounts intelligible and help explain their differences, this will include special attention to the relevant intellectual and social history of each issue and its public advocates; and (3) the theological warrants for how a just society may reside in religious and secular communities of moral discourse. [3]