Code
BS9020W (Classroom) / BS9720W (Online)
Unit offered alternatively as DT9020W (Classroom) / DT9720W (Online)
Unit offered alternatively as DT9020W (Classroom) / DT9720W (Online)
Level
Postgraduate
Discipline
Biblical Studies (BS)
Field
Biblical Studies (B)
Prerequisites
30 points in Field B; 15 Points in Systematic Theology
Online
Yes
Location
Whitley College view location >
Faculty
Mark Brett, Keith Dyer
Class Time
Three hours per week
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Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this unit, it is expected that students will be able to:
- Articulate the differences between a range of hermeneutical approaches;
- Outline factors contributing to the diversity of biblical ethics;
- Reflect critically on the cultural dimensions of hermeneutics;
- Analyze the key issues at stake in a particular ethical case study;
- Assess approaches to ethical questions for the local church and other ministry contexts;
- Reflect theologically on biblical texts and relate biblical studies to other theological disciplines in a research project at a postgraduate standard.
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Assessment
Classroom:
- One 2,000 word exegetical essay (30%)
- One 3,000 word hermeneutical essay (50%)
- Critical reflections on set readings – 1,000 words (20%)
Online:
- One 2,000 word exegetical essay (30%)
- One 3,000 word hermeneutical essay (50%)
- Online tutorial participation – not fewer than 5 entries of approx. 200 words each (20%)
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Recommended reading
Set texts recommended for purchase are highlighted in blue
- Barton, J. Ethics and the Old Testament. London: SCM, 2nd edn 2010.
- Barton, S.C. Life Together: Family, Sexuality and Community in the New Testament and Today. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2001.
- Burridge, R. Imitating Jesus: An Inclusive Approach to New Testament Ethics Today Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.
- Carroll, M.D. and J.E. Lapsley (eds), Character Ethics and the Old Testament. Louisville: WJKP, 2007.
- Cosgrove, C.H. Appealing to Scripture in Moral Debate: Five Hermeneutical Rules. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.
- Hays, R. The Moral Vision of the New Testament. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1996.
- Horrell, D. Solidarity and Difference: A Contemporary Reading of Paul’s Ethics. London: T & T Clark, 2005.
- Horrell, D. et al. (eds), Ecological Hermeneutics: Biblical, Historical and Theological Perspectives. London: T & T Clark, 2010.
- Janzen, W. Old Testament ethics: A Paradigmatic Approach. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1994.
- Wolterstorff, N. Justice: Rights and Wrongs. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
- Wright, C.J.H. Old Testament Ethics for the People of God. Leicester: IVP, ev edn 2013.