Foundations for a Biblical Ethic

In a society that has set its course towards absolute individual freedom, at all costs, even if it means abandoning all kinds of values, the church stands as a last bastion in defense of a structured system of ethical concepts of personal responsibility.

The scenario, however, is not promising. The degenerative process in educational processes is increasing. Christianity does not enjoy a good reputation historically, and empirical data does not favor us. This means that many educators and teachers are often bewildered when deciding exactly what ethical principles they should present and defend to their students. But if we want our mission to succeed, we must be able to present and propose to the world around us a system of ethical values that, without abandoning their biblical foundation, are attractive and credible to today's society.

With this book, David Gooding and John Lennox provide an answer to this pressing need. Thus, starting from a defense of Christian principles as a source of valid ethical values for today's society, they propose Christian answers to the most pressing problems of our postmodern world: economic, social, ethnic, and political. They also expose the fundamental elements of life's reality and the biblical principles necessary to balance it in all its areas. And they analyze, one by one, the doctrinal bases of faith and their ethical implications in the different facets of human behavior.

It is, therefore, a very valuable source of information for Christian teachers and educators, as well as an indispensable text in institutes and seminaries, and an extremely useful tool for pastors and leaders, in that it provides a varied and contextualized wealth of topics for preaching, relating biblical principles and foundations to the realities and practical needs of men and women today.