Conversion and Christian Ethics

Abstract

“The normative meaning of Christian conversion is to be found in a basic structure of human experience, involving the initiative of God's action and provoking a two-sided, inseparable response. This response involves the acknowledgment and confession of one's lostness and sinfulness as well as the acceptance of a call to holiness…. What this foundational conversion experience means for Christian ethics, I believe, is that the converted inevitably will understand morality differently from the non-converted. ”