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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
Disrupting the Social Order
A vibrant social order requires disturbance for development and legal change
Assessing whether laws promote flourishing requires empirical evidence as well as ethical reflection
Constant disorder or revolution prohibits social renewal
Disorder provides a means for renewing the social order
Should Christianity be considered conservative or radical?
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Economic Order
Economic collapse led to the creation of bankruptcy laws and a new economic order
Externalities (unintended effects in market interactions)
Free market liberalism
Market economies need private property, money, and a framework of law or social custom to function
Morality of markets
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Promoting goods in the economic order means considering both means and ends
Ways in which markets tend towards moral disorder or injustice
Order and Ecology
Caring for the environment is necessary to ensure good public health outcomes
Human authority over creation is delegated and subject to God’s authority; it must not be exploitative
In the Hebrew Bible, God often uses the non-human creation to bring about his will
Non-human creatures have value independent of their usefulness to humans, yet exist in some part to serve humans
Order and Health
AI may be able to reduce human bias in screening for markers of Alzheimer’s Disease
Public health aims to bring the good of health to individuals and communities
Public health requires caring for the environments in which people live, both physical and social
Public health seeks the complete physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being of people and communities
There is a helpful move in psychiatry towards promoting flourishing rather than just treating problems
Trauma needs to be heeded before order can be restored
Order in the Arts and Literature
Art has intrinsic value, outside of the effect it produces on those who engage with it
Art helps us become moral through both contemplation of what is good and depiction of what is evil
Literature of trauma reflects the disordered nature of those experiences, and by so doing validates them
The acknowledgment of disorder is a prelude to the return of order
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Music
Ancient Chinese musical theory
In ancient thought, music is a means of achieving virtue and order in the cosmos
Music can help foster social virtues
Music is an expression of cosmic harmony and mathematical ratios
Music requires both order and freedom to be successful
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Created Order and Academic Practices
Academic Virtues
Academic virtues are worship practices
Academic virtues displayed in an international relations context
Academic virtues displayed in university leadership
Charity
Courage to assert unpopular truths
Describing academic virtue
Academic Virtues: Humility
Humility is needed when communicating the potential of AI technologies
Humility when teaching mirrors Christ’s self-emptying at the incarnation
Humility’s necessity is shown in and promoted by Christian worship practices
Pursuing Truth
Academic vocation is about discerning reality as given by God
Academics must recognise how sin can corrupt their search for truth (ego, insecurity, lust for power etc.)
Discerning truth requires both awe and horror
Truth is not always obvious
Pursuing Truth in Community
Accountability is the virtue which enables us to use our freedom well
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