Description
The session opens with an overview of key ethical concepts with relevance to ministry, including duty, consequences, virtue, habituation, and community, situating these in theological context. The dynamic relationship between work and rest is then explored, with reference to the neglected doctrine of divine preservation and the idea that humans may be sharers in divine action. A day follows on ecotheology and church responses to environmental challenges. Theological interpretations of food and eating are next addressed, partly by being situated in a eucharistic context. The final topic is interpersonal ethics in a global community, in which the focus will be the role of ethical theories in shaping how we regard and treat other people.