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Ethics in Lutheran Perspective

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Date: Thursdays, starting January 15, 2026 for 12 weeks
Time: 7 – 9 pm CDT
EMMAUS Online Course using Zoom
Price: Regular Registation cost $30, PMA Registration cost for credit – $55

This 12 week course will offer an introduction to the field of Christian ethics, paying particular attention to distinctively Lutheran themes. During this course we will examine how the Lutheran theological tradition shapes ethical reflection for the church in its mission today. Together we will consider how to give constructive leadership in order that congregations become communities of moral deliberation.

Class Facilitator: Pr. Don Hunzeker

Class Topics:

1. Life in the Presence of God
2. God’s Law
3. Human Nature: Created by God
4. Human Nature: Fallen into Sin
5. The Authority of Scripture and Tradition
6. Experience and Reasoning as Sources of Authority
7. Luther’s Two Kingdoms
8. The Danger of Misinterpreting Luther’s Two Kingdoms
9. The Dynamics of justification and Christian Freedom
10. The Ethics of the Cross
11. Moral Deliberation in the Congregation
12. An Ethical Agenda for the Church
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