Loading…

Pocket Dictionary of Ethics is unavailable, but you can change that!

Ethics is as old as the city-state and as new as cyberspace. Guided by the wagon tracks of moral tradition, it nevertheless rides the cutting edge of science and technology. Increasingly, it is moving into the corner offices of law, business, medicine, science, and technology. But few of us arrive in our first ethics class—or take our seat on an ethics committee—with a grip on the range of ideas...

everything in creation, and as a consequence views human beings as responsible to God for the wise use of all that is entrusted to them to administer in a manner in keeping with God’s intended purposes. Often stewardship is viewed in the narrow sense of a person’s *responsibility for one’s material resources, especially money and possessions. In this sense, the principle of being responsible to God extends to the various aspects of one’s financial dealings: earning, spending, buying, saving, investing
Page 113