A Critical Analysis of the Role of God in Christian Ethics

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As per the Author’s view, rather than the ethics of deontological, the virtue or the character
ethics acts as the adequate approach. The recovery of the Christian doctrine is completely
fundamental to the recovery of Christian ethics. The author has defined the meaning of “God as
the ground of Christian ethics” which involves the deep & effective understanding of the right,
wise & good moral from the actions and the kind nature of God (Ehrkam & Nagel, 2014). The
author has also included that although God had created the good World along with humans, but
his beautiful creation is being ignored.
I completely agree with the concept of “Fall” which states that the beautiful creation of the God
is being ignored & also the goodness of his creation has been distorted for the wider level. The
human nature has the profound impact on the moral thinking and moral action. As per my view,
the human nature possesses the consequences in accordance to the different expectations of
human behavior along with the different outlooks of political, cultural & economic nature. I also
completely agree with the fact that our second creation after God is our family through which the
life of a human comes into the real world and the humans become more socialize & enhance
nurturing in faith.
I disagree with the concept of “Redemption” stated in the reading that the gracious creator God
has begun the process of redemption in order to bring back all his creature to himself & to design
the new & originated world. I believe, redemption is not the solution. God will definitely try to
improve his current world involving the sins of different people. The other reason behind this is
that if the new world will be created by God, it will also become the same (Pedersen, 2015).
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References
 Ehrkamp, P., & Nagel, C. (2014). “Under the radar”: undocumented immigrants,
Christian faith communities, and the precarious spaces of welcome in the US
South. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104(2), 319-328.
 Pedersen, K. P. (2015). Religious ethics and the environment: a review essay. Journal of
Religious Ethics, 43(3), 558-585.
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