“Christians believe that the world was created by God as a free outpouring of the love that constitutes his own triune life. In this world, the deepest calling of humans is to learn to receive and share this love, and so to be drawn ever more deeply into the divine life. It is on this basic sense that the Christian ethical vision rests.”
Judith Wolfe
Professor of Philosophical Theology
School of Divinity
St Mary’s College
University of St Andrews
Prof. Wolfe’s talk on April 1 will explore the ways in which ethics is an outworking of deep convictions about what the world is like, and looks closely at some of the particulars of the Christian faith.
“Ethics includes visions of the good life, ideals of human virtue, and values and norms governing human interaction. Jewish ethics rests on the belief that the human being was created in the image of God, and on the further belief that God communicated ethical norms and values to human beings through created human nature and through revelation and tradition.”
Shira Billet
Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought and Ethics
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Prof. Billet’s talk on April 1 will explore how Jews have uncovered ethics from reflection on creation, Torah, and universal and particularistic commandments.
