Taking Off and Landing: Explorations in the Moral Life

Taking Off and Landing: Explorations in the Moral Life

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Scarcity and the Christian Life
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Scarcity and the Christian Life

The Conditions Affecting How We Pray, Live, and Have Our Being

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Myles Werntz
Apr 21, 2023
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In this, we preview a subscriber-only series: scarcity and the Christian moral life. In May, I’ll join a Templeton Foundation grant, where I’ll be looking the relationship between how a mentality of scarcity affects the way we become virtuous people, and this will be the place that I work through that for the foreseeable future.


Why A Christian Ethicist Got Interested in Psychology and Scarcity

I got the notice that the Religion Department at Baylor was offering a crosstraining for theologians and ethicists in psychological science, and I was immediately…. suspicious. Not quite intrigued, but not completely put off by the whole idea.

Over the last few years, I’ve had several ethicist friends who have been involved with various other projects funded by the Templeton Foundation, and so, when I saw the notice, it made me ask if this was an opportunity, in two ways:

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