TS252 (Group Tutorial) (3 CR)
Required for MDiv
LECTURER
Dr Douglas Milne is both Principal and Professor of Theology and Ethics at the Presbyterian Theological College, Melbourne, Australia. Dr Milne began studies in ethics at Aberdeen University, then continued during his post-graduate theological studies in the USA. He is in process of completing another Master’s degree, on the subject of the human person in bioethical issues.
TUTOR
Dr Quek Swee Hwa received his Ph.D. in Biblical Studies at the University of Manchester and is the Principal of BGST. He began his first studies in theology under Prof. Robert Dunzweiler at Faith Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. His later studies in biblical and patristic exegesis in England, combined with a comprehensive pastoral and missionary ministry, has enabled him to feel the pulse of what lay Christians are thinking about biblical truth.
CHRISTIAN ETHICS: A SYNOPSIS
Christian ethics is about the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the course of living the Christian life in the modern world. These issues and dilemmas have largely resulted from the rapid and far-reaching changes that have been taking place across the world caused by movements like globalization and the rapid development of powerful technologies. Several of these issues and dilemmas are new to the 20th and 21st centuries.
These social and cultural changes in the modern world raise fundamental questions about the meaning and nature of human beings, what sort of behavior is appropriate for us, what values we should hold, and the kind of society we should plan for the future. Because of our belief in the Bible as the living Word of God that provides moral wisdom and power for living in God’s world, we can have confidence about finding guidelines and answers to our modern dilemmas.
The course is in two parts. The first part considers the foundations and principles of Christian ethics by working through the relevant parts of Scripture that instruct us morally. The second part of the course will consider actual issues that confront us with dilemmas in the modern world.
