The Glory of God and the Ethics of Reputation
In nearly every area of life, the care and keeping of our “good name” has enormous significance for how our lives go. Whether in the public sphere of social media and global politics or in everyday matters like finding a job or a spouse, we are faced with how to present ourselves to the world. The language of reputation, though, has largely disappeared from theological ethics. In this talk, theologian Matthew Lee Anderson will explore how the glory and name of Jesus Christ shape an ethic of reputation—and consider how catechesis as a practice of Christian formation equips us to lead lives that are transparent to God’s glory and bring honor to his name.
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Dr. Matthew Lee Anderson is Assistant Professor of Ethics and Theology in the Honors Program at Baylor University, and an associate fellow at the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life at Oxford University.
He completed a D.Phil. and M.Phil. at Oxford University in Christian Ethics and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. He is the author of several books, including most recently, Called into Questions: Cultivating the Love of Learning within the Life of Faith.
He founded Mere Orthodoxy and has written for First Things, the Washington Post, Mere Orthdoxy, and elsewhere on a wide range of interests. His primary scholarly interests include pro- and anti-natalism, political theology, and bioethics, and he is currently working on a project on the ethics of reputation.
Trinity is to be an evangelical seminary in the Anglican tradition. To this end we develop Christian leaders who can plant, renew, and grow churches that make disciples of Jesus Christ.
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