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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