Joining Creation’s Praise: A Theological Ethic of Creatureliness

In this major statement, a leading Christian ethicist shows how confessing that we are creatures deeply reshapes every aspect of Christian thinking and living because we were made to embody Christ’s image in the world--not as dominators but as conduits of divine life.

Brian Brock (PhD, King’s College, London) is chair of moral and practical theology at the University of Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland. He has written scholarly works on the use of the Bible in Christian ethics, the ethics of technological development, and the theology of disability, including Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture. He is managing editor of the Journal of Disability and Religion, founder and managing editor of the T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics, and president of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics.