Essay 1
● With the agreement of your tutor choose a key moral concept within the Christian
tradition and evaluate the use of this concept in Christian moral theology in the light of
the biblical drama.
● What are the challenges in appealing to Scripture in contemporary Christian ethics?
Describe and evaluate one method or author addressing these challenges
● What, if anything, does contemporary Christian ethics need in addition to love if the
church is to be biblically faithful in discipleship and witness?
● Do conscience and Scripture ever contradict each other and if so how should a
Christian respond to the conflict?
● Is Christian discipleship and witness able to be understood as a call to live
reasonably and in accordance with natural law?
● Virtue “is central in the New Testament but marginal in much western Christian
reflection” (Tom Wright). Discuss.