Ethics: Biblical Worldview, Key Relationships, and Approaches

What are the three key relationships with ethics?

Philosophy, religions, and worldviews.

What are the five best approaches for studying ethics?

Effort, humility, prayer, praise, and reason.

What three elements make up the metanarrative in a biblical worldview?

Fall, redemption, and completion.

What is the ultimate basis of ethics?

God's character.

What is the definition of ethics?

A society's perception of how man ought to live or a branch of philosophy.

What is the definition of morality?

How society views what is right and what is wrong.

What must people conform to in order to live ethically?

The Bible and God's character.

What are three major benefits of studying ethics?

Knowledge, personal growth, and improved testimony.

Where does human dignity and value come from?

Ethics.

What shows God's authority over the entire universe?

Creational order and sovereignty.

What attribute of God means pure and set apart?

Holiness.

Which attribute describes faithfulness and reliability?

Trustworthiness.

What attribute means that God judges rightly?

Righteousness.

What is required for Christians to accurately interpret creational norms?

The Bible.

What are three ways that creational norms can be discovered?

Creation, scripture, and the image of God in man.

What is the relationship between ethical knowledge and spiritual wisdom?

Believers cannot do the right thing without knowing how to arrive at the choice.

What do most secular philosophers maintain about wisdom?

It can be obtained through reason and intellect alone, apart from divine revelation.

What is the significance of God's gift of mercy?

It reflects God's goodness.

What did Christ say obedience to the law looks like?

Virtue and love.

What is the claim about creational norms since the fall?

They no longer govern the world.

What innate sense do all people have due to being made in the image of God?

An innate sense of creational norms.

Can people completely escape the creational norms that reflect God's character?

No, they cannot completely escape them.

What does psalm 1 tell us to avoid?

Wisdom, actions, and philosophy

What is the question for wisdom?

What they have to say ( or what their listening to)

What is the question for actions?

What they do

What is the question for philosophy?

What they think

What does psalm 1 say the righteous should be like?

Rooted in truth. Trust god's timing, abide in god's power, and bear fruit in God's will(obedience)

What are the 4 branches of philosophy?

Metaphysics, aesthetics, epistemology, and ethics

Define metaphysics

the study of the nature of reality

Define aesthetics

The study of beauty and judgement

Define ethics

moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.

Define epistemology

study of knowledge

What are the 4 major appproaches to ethics

Deontological, consequentialists, virtue ethics, existentialists

What do the deontological believe and who was their leader

Driven by objective, absolute, universal, rules or principles

Immanuel Kant

What do the consequentialists believe and how was their leader

Jeremy Bentham and john Stuart mill

Driven by results or goals

What does virtue ethics believe and their leaders

Driven by inward virtue or character

Alastair maclntyre and Stanley Haverwas

What do the existentialist believe and the leader

Driven by just being who one is naturally

Jean-Paul Sartre

What are the three rules of thumb

Look for internal consistancy, external coherence, God's word

What is the question for look to God's word

Does the ethical system in any wya contradict the teachings in god's word

What is the question for look for internal consistency

Does the ethical system continue or undermine itself

What is the question for external coherence

Does the ethical system match up with how things work in real life