Family, Covenant and Kingdom of God
Article
Transformation 2002 (Vol. 19, No. 1, page 11)

Is the family a good thing or not? Chris Wright reviews what the Bible tells us. The ‘family’ was created to be good, but is often distorted for evil.

Theology and ethics of the land
Article
Transformation 1999 (Vol. 16, No. 3, page 81)

Creation is not solely for human benefit – it has value in relation to God directly. There are a number of biblical concepts – for example, stewardship and servanthood, the land of Israel as a microcosm of the earth – which help us to explore what our attitude should be to God’s creation.

Bibliography of Writings on Ethics
Bibliography
Transformation 1993 (Vol. 10, No. 3, page 27)

This is a personal selection of what I have found helpful and significant, and does not pretend to be an exhaustive listing of everything in the field.

Response to the Theological Overviews
Article
Transformation 1990 (Vol. 7, No. 1, page 17)

We need to keep a firm grasp of the creation basis for our social concern, not merely for the well-known themes that are located there (such as humanity as the image of God, the goodness of the creation, human stewardship of the earth, the complementarity of man and woman, the responsibility of work and rest). We also need to keep creation foundational as a protection against a kind of historicism which becomes entirely relativisic; that is, which puts all our human endeavour at the mercy of history as a process, and sees the Gospel as bound to and within history. The emphasis in both papers on historical context and culture is vital. This has been a great gain since Lausanne I. It is not only necessary, but in fact inevitable, that we take our context and culture seriously both in our reading of the Bible and in our manifesting of the gospel. But while culture and context will shape our understanding, formulation, reception and response ot it, they do not in themselves determine its fundamental content. This is for two reasons.

The Ethical Relevance of Israel as a Society
Article
Transformation 1984 (Vol. 1, No. 4, page 11)

Paradigms, Types and Eschatology
Article
Transformation 1984 (Vol. 1, No. 1, page 11)