Christian Moral Theology Analysis

Christian Moral Theology engages questions and issues that invite discussion and interpretation of convictions through lenses of theology, using The Bible as one of its chief sources. It involves examination of perspectives through sociology, history, religion, ethics, policy, politics, ecclesiology, ideology, law, culture, and societal expectations and standards. This paper will focus on answering the question if Christians should desire happiness or not, and if they should, what are the reasons for their doing. Furthermore, the paper will include class lectures and course readings.
Using myself as a specimen, I would answer the above mentioned question that I as Christian desire happiness because it is a legal, moral, ethical and Christian …show more content…
For a country like Pakistan, the communal culture encourages people to take in one’s family member, relative, friend or even an acquaintance in refuge, at a time of their crisis, financial bankruptcy, loss of job or even death of a person. If by chance, the person has no one that he or she can look up to, that person would be forced to either become a beggar or try best working beneath one’s educational standard. Having stated that, this happens rare because either the person would be part of a join family or would be a nuclear family and even as a nuclear family might have some savings in their bank accounts. Even though there has been a loss of job, or lack of finance, the love of his family, near or distant, even neighbors, would help that person survive and make a comeback. This would fall in the category of poverty but not typically homelessness. Those who sleep on the streets might be the laborers who survive on daily ages and having lack of finances would sleep on the streets and send their savings to the families where they come from. Hence, people sleeping on the streets or in the parks most likely have someone in their lives, it is rare that some have no kindred, but one cannot deny that either. Contrary to this, the homelessness in a culture like the U.S., would be called a systemic evil because it is operated through a pattern that is about …show more content…
This might be an unusual question, but I am reminded of the people and animals in Nineveh that did not eat any food when Jonah shared God’s word with them. (Jonah 3:7) Though I am trying to qualify animals as equal to the humans, I am asking if God can have compassion on God’s entire creation, including animals, should the humans not show compassion on animals too. Does it not indicate that not only because the earth is the Lord’s and everything that is in it, God’s creation is the unnamed Christian congregation? In other words, if the humans are the Church, what about the animals? Can we call them the unbaptized Christians too? Sometimes, I wonder if the birds not only chirp, they praise God because God talks with them, just like Jonah 2:10 mentions God “ordered” the whale which means God communicated with the wale. Though animals do not have the same status as humans, do the animals also not desire to receive love, compassion and mercy, and not intolerant injustices from humans, like the dogs and pigs that are boiled alive for food? Do the baptized Christians forget that animals are God’s Creation and not theirs .Animals belong to God and they should treat them without brutality and persecution. Augustan states in chapter 15 “justice is love serving only the loved object.” This signifies the love that one can or