Dr Benno Van Den Toren studied theology at Utrecht, Oxford and Kampen (Ph.D.) and is currently a proffessor of doctrine, ethics and apologetics in the Bengui Evangelical Graduate School in the Central African Republic, teaching students from all over French-speaking Africa. He spent the 2002/2003 year as a Scholar-in-Residence at Regent College, Vancouver. He published on ethics and culture in Missiology and Exchange.
Christian Ethics in a Cross Cultural Environment
Speaker(s): Benno Van Den Toren
Date: Dec. 02
Length: 1:42:44
Product ID: RGDL3216L
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Description
This lecture explores the ways in which our culture does and should influence our ethical reflection. In a sense the Christian worldview engenders its particular culture. In another sense Christian ethics can be lived out in different cultural contexts and forms. Commonly one distinguishes between universal ethical principles and their particular application. Because of the limitations of this model, the lecturer proposes to use God's universal goal for his creation as a key to distinguishing the universal ethical norm and its meaning in a particular cultural context. The fruits of this second model are shown in an ethical analysis of the African practice of the bride price.
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