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About the Society of Christian Ethics SCE The purpose of the Society is to promote scholarly work in Christian ethics and in the relation of Christian ethics to other traditions of ethics and to social economic political and cultural problems to encourage and improve the teaching of these fields in colleges universities and theological schools and to provide a community of discourse and debate for those engaged professionally within these general fields. A nondenominational scholarly association the Society of Christian Ethics draws its 950 members from the faculties of universities colleges and theological schools primarily from the United States Canada and Europe. The growth and vitality of the Society of Christian Ethics reflect the maturing of the academic discipline of Christian social ethics. The SCE promotes research in the history of ethics and moral theology theoretical issues relating to the interplay of theology and ethics methodology in ethical reflection and investigation and comparative religious ethics.