Grey clad mystery: Ethics vs. Morality

Friday, December 01, 2006

Ethics vs. Morality

A quote from a website of an emerging churches core value on character. I'm interested to hear your comments on their take on morality from this excerpt:

"We think that a person’s character is best judged by ethical standards as opposed to moral ones. Morality seems more concerned with specific behaviors (drinking, smoking etc) whereas ethics are more concerned with principles such as love, justice and humility. In determining the quality of a person’s character, we are far more concerned with the answer to the following question “what is this person like to live with?"

Is morality something that can be relegated to the backburner of Christian living?

2 comments:

Anonymous6:45 p.m.
Which is more important - issues or actions? hmm.... We can stand for issues, without having ethical actions. Can you have ethical actions and ignore issues?
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Tim12:07 a.m.
Good point Jerry. Actions and issues are all tied together sometimes. People who often try to ignore issues and focus on their own actions, involuntarily make a choice over an issue. Simply by virtue (no pun intended) of the effects of their actions. Without being 'actively' involved in Pro-Life movements, I am, by my actions (the way I treat and consider my unborn child) advocating for the choice to let children in the womb live.
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But the last-comer was named among the elves Mithrandir, the Grey Pilgrim, for he dwelt in no place, and gathered to himself neither wealth nor followers, but ever went to and fro in the Westlands ... befriending all folk in times of need. Warm and eager was his spirit for he was the Enemy of Sauron, opposing the fire that devours and wastes with the fire that kindles, and succours in wanhope and distress; but his joy, and his swift wrath, were veiled in garments grey as ash, so that only those that knew him well glimpsed the flame that was within. Merry he could be, and kindly to the young and simple, and yet quick at times to sharp speech and the rebuking of folly; but he was not proud, and sought neither power nor praise, and thus far and wide he was beloved among all those that were not themselves proud. Mostly he journeyed unwearyingly on foot, leaning on a staff; and so he was called among Men of the North Gandalf, 'Elf of the Wand'.