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Rethinking Relational Justice
Michael Schluter, September 2006
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Robert left Anne and his three children to go and live with his new girlfriend in a flat nearby. The relationship with Anne had not always been easy, and he had fallen in love with a secretary at work. On the face of it, as Christians, we would agree this was wrong. Robert committed adultery and was unfaithful to his wife and children. But was Robert unfair to Anne and his children? Was it a case of injustice?
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Crime & Justice
Sex and violence in Genesis
Gordon Wenham, September 2006
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Readers of Genesis will quickly come across a variety of episodes that seem to be marked by irregular sexual behaviour. I say seem to be irregular, because what we really need to establish is whether these actions contravene biblical law on the one hand or the ethics of the narrator on the other. We must endeavour to avoid reading into the text our own prejudices, and let it speak for itself. In this article we look briefly at how the narrator portrays bigamy, adultery, premarital sex, surrogate marriage, homosexual practice and incest.
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Sex & Families
Learning from the Relationships of Jesus
Chris Pain, September 2006
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As regular readers will know, part of the bedrock of the Jubilee Centres research and activity over the last 23 years has been our understanding of Matthew 22:34-40, where Jesus is asked to name the greatest commandment. Instead, he picks two and then goes further. He does not merely say these are the two greatest commandments, but all the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments.
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues
Concordis International: a Second Year of Peacemaking
Peter Dixon, September 2006
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At the time of writing, the situation in Darfur is steadily deteriorating, as an ironic consequence of a peace agreement signed by only some of the combatant parties. It would be easy to give up hope for peaceful outcomes in the Sudan, but we at Concordis International are reluctant to do anything of the sort. God is sovereign, even in that frustrating and sometimes discouraging conflict.
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs
Book Review: Glory Days
Julian Hardyman (reviewed by Jason Fletcher), September 2006
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Glory Days matters because of the persistence of an ancient misconception – that the spiritual is good and the material bad. That growing in relationship with God is so important that this world pales into insignificance. That only saving souls has lasting value and nothing else has intrinsic worth. Most of us reject this ‘sacred–secular divide’ in principle but many of us have been discouraged by the subtle, or not so subtle, ways it manages to creep into our churches, often more by what is not said than by what is.
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Christianity & Religion
Consent versus Community: What Basis for Sexual Offences?
Jonathan Burnside, August 2006
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In this major new report from the Jubilee Centre a new and powerful line of critique of contemporary sexual ethics is opened, one the Jubilee Centre is continuing to research. Our contention is that the morality of a decision regarding sexual practice can only adequately be judged when the interests of third parties are taken into account. To put it another way, debate should be focused around a positive concern for the communities we seek to protect. What about the toll upon ones spouse, children, extended family, friends or colleagues some or all of whom will be affected by decisions consenting adults take? A serious concern to build community requires a new, less individualistic basis for sexual offences. This thorough and insightful study of sexual offences in biblical law (Leviticus 20 in particular), opens a new, and surprisingly fruitful, way forward.
Category: Reports
Keywords: Sex & Families
The abolition of the slave trade: Christian conscience and political action
John Coffey, June 2006 1 comment
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The year 2007 marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade by the British Parliament. The campaign for abolition was spearheaded by devout Christians, and it stands to this day as perhaps the finest political achievement of what would now be called faith-based activism. But who were the abolitionists, and how did their Christianity motivate them to campaign against the slave trade? This paper examines the Christian mind of the abolitionists, and ponders the lessons for today.
Category: Cambridge Papers
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Crime & Justice
From Sustainability to Fruitfulness
Nick Spencer, June 2006
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It is hard to turn on the television or open a newspaper today without reading something about sustainability or sustainable development. For over twenty years the idea that we are not living sustainably, and that we desperately need to be, has been growing in the public mind.
Category: News & Research
Keywords: The Environment
Transforming Community Relationships
Michael Schluter, June 2006
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About two years ago Michael Schluter was invited by five Anglican ministers from Camberley in Surrey to explore how he thought they could influence the Camberley community with Christian values for the sake of the gospel.
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues
The Contribution of Narrative to Old Testament Ethics
Gordon Wenham, June 2006
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Although standard practice among preachers and commentators to draw ethical teaching from biblical narrative, in scholarly circles such an approach has been highly unfashionable for the last two centuries. The main issue that confronts the reader of the biblical stories is: who is the reader meant to identify with? Is it with the actors in the story, or with the narrator or more precisely the implied author of the story?
Category: News & Research
Keywords: Christianity & Religion