storytelling – OralityTalks https://oralitytalks.net Journal • Webinar • Forum Mon, 31 Mar 2025 06:16:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://oralitytalks.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-OralityTalks-Icon-32x32.png storytelling – OralityTalks https://oralitytalks.net 32 32 228068180 Oral Ethics: How can Oral Hermeneutics Build a Christian Ethic? https://oralitytalks.net/oral-ethics/ https://oralitytalks.net/oral-ethics/#respond Fri, 28 Mar 2025 18:27:24 +0000 https://oralitytalks.net/?p=2443 Few lay Christians routinely practice the disciplines of ethics and hermeneutics confidently and appropriately. Many who have learned to practice these disciplines often leave that knowledge to gather dust between the covers of a textbook. This paper discusses how the various folklore or literary genres in the Bible are particularly suited for the study and practice of the three branches of Christian ethics. Lessons built on spiral logic or pedagogy patterns can use the genres of myth to teach meta-ethics, prescriptive narrative, and others for normative ethics, as well as descriptive narrative to teach and enact applied ethics. The practice of oral hermeneutics may pair with this course of study to deliver that ethical material from Scripture effectively to the oral majority or anyone who desires not only to learn ethics but to live them.

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Steffen, T. A., & Neu, R. (2024). Character theology: Engaging God through his cast of characters. Pickwick Publications. ISBN 978-1-6667-7857-1.

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