Course Reflection - Pastoral and Social Ethics

The wonderful part about taking a John Frame class is how easily the material from his other classes blends together the content into a cohesive whole.  This class in particular has been thought provoking from the standpoint of applying his tri-perspectival point of view to living out life and dealing with real world situations.  There are many ethical dilemmas that face the world, and this class is one that will provide a great foundation for dealing with those issues form a biblical perspective.  The most challenging of which for our culture can be how to apply the 10 commandments, but Frame helped to draw out both the narrow and broad applications of each.  This reminded me of the importance of God’s law specifically the normative perspective while it also illuminated the existential applications for me as a person and the situational perspectives implications on the world.  This is an essential class for anyone who is seriously tackling ethical issues presented today from a biblical perspective. 

Daily Worship – The Christian Existential Ethic in the Presence of God

Assignment:
For a topic, you may choose anything in the field of ethics. See the lecture outline, study guide, supplementary documents, and the list of topics above under “General Plan” for suggestions. You may write about an ethical philosopher or theologian, exegete a text, deal with some biblical-theological issue with ethical implications (e.g. “Law and Grace in Gal. 3”), treat an ethical problem, or do anything else pertinent to the concerns of the course. I construe “ethics” pretty broadly, but I’d rather you did not choose a topic that is systematically treated in another course, unless you focus on ethical implications of that topic. For instance, don’t write on “The Image of God in Reformed Thought,” but you might write on “Moral Excellence as an Aspect of the Image of God.”