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Topical Guide: Created Order
Created Order Related Topics
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Order and Contemporary Issues
Biblical Foundations of Order
Theologies of Order
Moral Order
Discerning Moral Order
Created Order Cognates
Created Order in the Christian Tradition
Created Order in Classical Traditions
Disorder
Order and Freedom
Order and Postmodernism
Promoting Order
Order and the Natural World
Political and Social Orders
Economic Order
Order and Ecology
Order and Health
Order in the Arts and Literature
Created Order and Academic Practices
Created Order in the Disciplines
The Bible and Moral Order
The New Testament borrows from Roman morality
Creation and the Nature of God
Christian doctrine of creation compared with a Confucian view
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Creation is ordered, but it is also profuse and diverse
God's attributes are mirrored in the created order
God’s oneness means that what he makes accords with his rationality
Trinitarian monotheism entails a created order that is dynamic and creative
Human Nature and Human Flourishing
A Christian ethic cannot be reduced to moral commandments
Creational goods are prior to moral commands
Creational goods are valuable irrespective of whether humans value them
Creational goods promote human flourishing; moral laws defend these goods
Embodied human existence itself is a good
Humans' role as image bearers is linked to their rule over creation
Values are as intrinsic to creation as matter is
Sin
Divinely-given values provide grounds to critique human orders
Human depictions of evil in art mimic God’s awareness and judgment of evil
Sin makes us ignorant about human nature and behaviour
Sin's effect on our minds makes identifying what is good difficult
Salvation
How the moral order might be communicated through the history of salvation
Humans order creation as a response to God's saving action
We are redeemed by love, not law
Worship
Christian spiritual practices such as confession, prayer, and worship make us better at promoting the good
Embodied goodness is at the heart of Christian worship and liturgy
The Source of Moral Order
A created, objective moral order is a logical outworking of monotheism
If the universe exists because of blind chance, the human condition is probably amoral
In Confucianism, cosmic order generates moral law
The Good is neither independent of God nor his arbitrary command, but is God’s eternal nature
Creational Goods and Moral Commands
Creational goods and their goal, human flourishing, are prior to moral commands
Creational goods and their goal, human flourishing, are prior to moral commands: a psychiatric application of this idea
Intrinsic goodness can be distinguished from instrumental goods
Morally obligatory acts can be distinguished from those which are morally good but not obligatory
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The difference between moral goods and moral principles
This theory explains why people are willing to sacrifice for a higher moral good
Moral Law in Practice
Appeals to the created order may aid cross-cultural and inter-religious dialogue
Freedom is inherent in God’s moral law; it is both private and communal
Laws do not overlap with natural morality perfectly; otherwise, states would have to police in highly intrusive ways
Only some parts of divine moral law are best realised through human laws
Situations may arise where the dictates of God’s moral order conflict with a leader’s obligation to their constituents
Discerning Moral Order
A ‘tense consensus’ is possible between Christian and non-Christian accounts of morality
Difficulties with divine command theory
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Due to the way sin impairs our ability to know what is good, we need special revelation - the Bible and subsequent reflection on it
Since the moral order is universal, it is (at least partly) accessible to all
Some moral principles are observable across all societies; they can be discerned empirically
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We can discover goods by analysing what motivates our behaviour
Difficulties in Discerning Moral Order
New Testament ethics show that it is difficult to move from the observed natural order to moral law
Sin hinders our attempts to understand the world, and particularly human nature
The good is difficult to discern due to the ways that sin warps the conscience
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