The Need for Protestant Ethicists: A Response to Carl Trueman

September 13th, 2024 | 11 min read

I read with great interest Carl Trueman’s recent post on the need for protestant ethicists to assist the church in its confrontation with contemporary moral challenges. I myself have been involved in this work since about 2011. I taught Christian ethics first at a seminary and then a liberal arts college for the better part of eleven years. I’ve published books and articles on a wide range of moral questions. For several years I chaired the Christian ethics unit of the Evangelical Theological Society. I have skin in the game, as they say.

To begin with, let me simply affirm the great majority of what Trueman argues in the post.

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Matthew Arbo

Dr. Matthew Arbo is the author of Political Vanity: Adam Ferguson on the Moral Tensions of Early Capitalism (Fortress Press, 2014) and, more recently, Walking Through Infertility: Biblical, Theological, and Moral Counsel for those who are Struggling (Crossway, 2018). His essays and articles on wide-ranging moral and political questions appear in several edited volumes and top-tier journals, including Political Theology, Studies in Christian Ethics, and the Evangelical Review of Society and Politics. Arbo is an active participant in the scholarly community, contributing as an invited panelist or presenter for conferences at Princeton University, University of Notre Dame, and Tyndale House (Cambridge), among others. He is a member of the American Academy of Religion, Society of Christian Ethics, and Evangelical Theological Society.

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The Need for Protestant Ethicists: A Response to Carl Trueman

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