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Pastoral Ethics offers clear and practical guidance on the ethical and theological dimensions of the dilemmas to be faced in counseling situations. The volume covers 20 major contemporary issues including marriage, family, forgiveness, divorce, business, power, science, health, bereavement, sexuality and the environment. Ministry to the morally confused is a vital part of the work of Christian...

biblical writers were children of their age. St Paul was a first-century Jew. (And, of course, all this is true.) But then the conclusion is drawn that we cannot therefore expect the biblical authors to give us any useful information for our very different world. Such a despairing view also fails to take the Bible seriously enough. It fails to recognize the sense in which the Bible comes to us as revelation from God. It fails to recognize that many ancient texts convey wisdom about the nature of
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