by Roger Olson | Oct 31, 2019 | Opinion
Lately, I have been reading a great deal of primary and secondary literature about Christian ethics – beginning with the ancient church fathers. In my opinion, Richard Hayes’ “The Moral Vision of the New Testament” more than adequately covers New Testament ethics, so...
by Roger Olson | Oct 9, 2018 | Opinion
“Situation ethics” was popularized in the 1960s by Joseph Fletcher. As I shared previously, the writings of Augustine and Luther contain similar lines of thought to Fletcher’s ideas set forth in his book, “Situation Ethics: The New Morality,” but with several...
by Roger Olson | Oct 8, 2018 | Opinion
When I was a kid growing up in the “thick” of American evangelical Christianity in the 1960s, we were warned about one great horrible “bugaboo” (cause for fear and alarm), which would infect our thinking and lead us down a road to complete personal decadence and...
