Christian Education in Ethical Perspectives

This article explores ethical perspectives which provide critical foundations for a Christian understanding of morality. Christian education help people understand themselves and make sense of their lives in society. The close relationship between Christian education and ethics has weakened recently in theological work. Exploration of the philosophical and theological ethical perspectives of German social and political theorist Jurgen Habermas’ ethics and H. Richard Niebuhr’s theological, responsible ethics may shed light on our problems. Based on this explanation, a critical correlation of social and political ethics with theological ethics may provide ethical implications for Christian education. These two theories of ethics may provide Christian educators with ethical foundations with which to enable and encourage Christians to play a more active role in the post-modern context.