BIBLICAL ETHICS
Study Guide for “The Moral Revolution” -- Chapter 1 of
Ethics by Arthur Holmes
How did the moral revolution in the United States become obvious in the 1960’s?
What is ethics about?
What does ethics examine?
What does ethics explore?
What does ethics ask?
In the last century, ethicists have tended to view ethics as an empirical science. What does an empirical
science focus on?
What does it mean to say that ethics is less about what people do than it is about what people ought to
do?
What does it mean to say that ethics is less about what people value than it is about what they ought to
value?
In ethics, what does the word normative mean?
How does a description differ from a prescription?
How does the group of rules known as the Ten Commandments function as a point of reference for
ethics?
How does the Book of Proverbs function as a point of reference for ethics?
How does the book of the prophet Amos function as a point of reference for ethics?
Will ethics lead us to biblical morality?
Will biblical morality lead us to ethics?
What can biblical morality gain from philosophical ethics?
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BIBLICAL ETHICS
Complete the following: “Philosophical and biblical ethics go _______ in _______, the biblical
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biblical.”
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