Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics
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The Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics (KLICE) is an independent, evangelical organisation that promotes the study and understanding of Christian ethics
. KLICE was founded in 2006, and is based at Tyndale House
in Cambridge
, England.
KLICE's activities include research, publication, collaborative projects, and running conferences and seminars. KLICE states that its vision is "to contribute a Christian perspective to public debates about ethics in the UK."
Three times a year KLICE publishes articles on various ethical subjects under the name Ethics in Brief.
KLICE's first Director, Dr. Jonathan Chaplin, was appointed in September 2006. In September 2010 Dr. Joshua Hordern was appointed as KLICE's first Associate Director.
Christian ethics
The first recorded meeting on the topic of Christian ethics, after Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, Great Commandment, and Great Commission , was the Council of Jerusalem , which is seen by most Christians as agreement that the New Covenant either abrogated or set aside at least some of the Old...
. KLICE was founded in 2006, and is based at Tyndale House
Tyndale House
Tyndale House is a publisher founded in 1962 by Kenneth N. Taylor, in order to publish his paraphrase of the Epistles, which he had composed while commuting to work at Moody Press in Chicago. The book appeared under the title Living Letters, and received a television endorsement from Billy Graham...
in Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, England.
KLICE's activities include research, publication, collaborative projects, and running conferences and seminars. KLICE states that its vision is "to contribute a Christian perspective to public debates about ethics in the UK."
Three times a year KLICE publishes articles on various ethical subjects under the name Ethics in Brief.
KLICE's first Director, Dr. Jonathan Chaplin, was appointed in September 2006. In September 2010 Dr. Joshua Hordern was appointed as KLICE's first Associate Director.