WHY SCRIPTURE SCHOLARS AND THEOLOGICAL ETHICISTS NEED ONE ANOTHER

Exegeting and Interpreting the Beatitudes as a Scripted Script for Ethical Living

Authors

  • Yiu Sing Luke Chan Chinese University of Hong Kong

Keywords:

SCRIPTURE SCHOLARS, THEOLOGICAL ETHICISTS

Abstract

Throughout this entire work I have been advocating for a more
integrated approach for doing Scripture-based Christian theological
ethics. For a variety of reasons – from the growing complexities of
each field to the lack of communication and competency in the
other’s field to the problems in interdisciplinary exercise – Scripture
scholars do not use much ethical theory, while theological ethicists do
little actual exegesis.

Author Biography

Yiu Sing Luke Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Lúcás Chan Yiu-sing, SJ, from Hong Kong, has served as a staff member of the
Planning Committee in the two International Catholic Theological Ethics in the
World Church Conferences held in Padova and Trent, Italy in 2006 and 2010
respectively. He has published several essays on virtue ethics and comparative
theology in journals and book series in Asia and Europe. He is currently working on
two book-length manuscripts on bridging Scripture and Christian theological ethics.
Chan will be an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Cultural and Religious
Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Jesuit School of Theology of
Santa Clara University in Berkeley, USA, in academic year 2011-12. Email:
lucas.chan@dublin.com

References

Allen Verhey, “Scripture as Script and as Scripted: The Beatitudes,” in Character Ethics and the New Testament: Moral Dimensions of Scripture, ed. Robert L.

Brawley (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2007).

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Published

2011-06-30

How to Cite

Chan, Y. S. L. (2011). WHY SCRIPTURE SCHOLARS AND THEOLOGICAL ETHICISTS NEED ONE ANOTHER: Exegeting and Interpreting the Beatitudes as a Scripted Script for Ethical Living. Asian Horizons, 5(02), 386–390. Retrieved from https://dvkjournals.in/index.php/ah/article/view/2498

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 02 (2011): ASIAN HORIZONS

Section

New Scholars