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Jenson on metaphor and theological language
Across the two volumes of his systematic theology, Robert Jenson makes a number of comments about the nature of metaphor in theological speech. I tracked down one of these the other day, only to stumble across others. I thought I’d share them here.
Ethics primer
There are two sets of fundamental distinctions in ethics. The first concerns the kind of ethics in view. The second concerns the difference between morality and other terms or concepts we are prone to confuse with morality.
“X is not in the Bible”
In an annual course I teach on moral philosophy I assign a textbook that contains a chapter on X. The author of the textbook is an ethicist, and the ethics he seeks to present to his readers (imagined as college students) is general or universal ethics; though he doesn’t out himself as a Kantian, those with ears to hear spy it from the opening pages. In the chapter on X the author has a sidebar dedicated to religious, by which he means Christian, arguments about X.