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# Mere Fidelity: The Resurrection and Ethics - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/mere-fidelity-resurrection-ethics/
- Published: 2015-04-06T05:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-18T16:54:12.000Z
- Description: What role does the resurrection play in ethics? How should Christians think about the natural law?
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Matthew Lee Anderson

What has the resurrection to do with how we think about ethics? Alastair, Derek and I discuss that question as well as the limits and possibilities of natural law reasoning. We consider (tangentially) this [essay by James K.A. Smith](http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/4432/beyond-creation-and-natural-law-an-evangelical-public-theology/?ref=mereorthodoxy.com), this [*fascinating* story from Conor Friedersdorf](http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/the-audacity-of-talking-about-race-with-the-klu-klux-klan/388733/?ref=mereorthodoxy.com), and [this tome by Oliver O’Donovan](http://www.amazon.com/Resurrection-Moral-Order-Outline-Evangelical/dp/0802806929?ref=mereorthodoxy.com).

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