Christian ethics – creational or eschatological?
In seeking to develop and refine biblical ethics, are we supposed to look back, to how things were when God created the heavens and the earth, and pronounced all things good? Or should we look forward, to our perfected life in the new heavens and new earth?
Sam Wells would like to see ‘backward-looking’ thinking replaced by ‘forward-looking thinking.’
There is no getting away from the fact that Jesus and the apostles do look back to creation to support and explain their ethical teachings.…