Good conduct and key moral principles

  • ​Good conduct: the importance of good moral conduct in the Christian way of life, including reference to teaching about justification by works, justification by faith and predestination.

  • Sanctity of life: the concept of sanctity of life; different views about its application to issues concerning the embryo and the unborn child; the just war theory and its application to the use of weapons of mass destruction.

  • Dominion and stewardship: the belief that Christians have dominion over animals; beliefs about the role of Christians as stewards of animals and the natural environment and how changing understandings of the effects of human activities on the environment have affected that role.

Articles and Podcasts

The Tablet: 8 Apr 2023 ‘The price of love’ – DL Dusenbury

The Tablet: 20 May 2023 ‘Inside the Catholic soul’ – DJ Taylor

The Tablet: 1 Apr 2023 ‘A division set in stone’ – T Hobson

Dialogue: Modern Moral Uncertainty and Christianity, Edition 17

Dialogue: Morality and Religion, Edition 6

Dialogue: Morality and Religion, Edition 9

Dialogue: The Use and Abuse of the Bible in Ethics, Edition 14

Dialogue: Morals in the New Millennium, Edition 15

Dialogue: Can We Have Morality Without God and Religion, Edition 18

Dialogue: Connecting Morality and Religion, Edition 20

Dialogue: What does religion tell us about happiness?, Edition 29

Dialogue: The Bible as a ‘savage text’, Edition 38

Dialogue: The Bible and ethics, Edition 49

Dialogue: The Sermon on the Mount – impossible ideal, Edition 55

R4 In Our Time Podcast: Papal Infallibility