Syndicate is an online platform that hosts open-access symposia on new academic books: a group of scholars each write a critical response, and the author replies.
The latest theology symposium takes up Director Luke Bretherton's A Primer in Christian Ethics: Christ and the Struggle to Live Well. Five scholars take turns with the book, asking whether a primer is even viable as theology enrolments decline, whether politics can ever be separated from coercion, whether listening to the oppressed requires first changing how you live, and, perhaps most sharply, what flourishing means for creatures who are inevitably decaying and dying.
Bretherton replies to each, defending the book as a form of testimony: a declaration that Christian ethics can and should be done even amid institutional collapse and self-doubt. The whole exchange is free to read at syndicate.network.
You can purchase a copy of the book on this link: Click here to be redirected to the Cambridge University Press website.
Image used in the poster is The Good Samaritan, 1907 by Paula Modersohn-Becker. It is the same image on Director Bretherton's book.
