The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics

Talk about ethics and morality still tends to hinge on concepts and issues like obligation and duty, virtue and consequences, good and less actions, societal harms and cultural context and responsibility. For many faiths, there is an important added dimension – that ethics and morality have their base in religious belief and valuation, that contemporary moral relativism is impoverished if it lacks the authority and provenance of faith. This is a contested field where faith and culture collide, ethical theory and theological interpretation insist on being heard, pragmatic criteria and opportunism mouth ostentatious rhetoric and, on a personal level, simplistic...