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Strategic Management for the Case Study Of Biocon India Group

Question: Describe about the Strategic Management for the Case Study Of Biocon India Group. Answer: Introduction Strategic management avails a business organisation opportunity to form and achieve specific goals through logical and steps. Indian pharmaceutical sector has grown over past few years to become one of the best-organised sectors. The industry is responsible for the development and sustenance of global medicine industry. Biocon Limited is a major part of this industry, and in this study, strategic opportunities of this organisation in the above-mentioned market have been evaluated and development strategies have been suggested based on the evaluation. Biocon Limited is a biopharmaceutical company from India. This company has brought bio-revolution in India. The founder of this company was Kiran Mazumdar Shaw. This company evolved with time from the field of enzyme manufacturing to bio-pharmaceutical. Biocon limited was established in the year 1978. It was a joint venture of Biocon India with Ireland. In the year 1998, Biocon India took over Unilever's part of the company (Bioconfoundation.org, 2016). Biocon Limited produces generic active ingredients and sells them in developed European market. Current revenue of this company is 22.40 billion INR. Mission, vision and Objectives of Biocon Limited: Vision: The organisation's main vision is to increase global healthcare to innovate and affordable biopharmaceuticals for all. Mission: The organisation wants to create intellectual asset through the process of discovery, development and research. The organisation wants to provide internationally benchmarked quality products. Biocon wants to focus on customer relationship with outstanding products. Training, empowering and monitoring are some of the techniques that the company wants to make for developing human resource development within the organisation. Objectives: The main objective of this company is to decrease the vulnerability to health associated problems to malnourished and poor people. It intends to raise aware in making the significance of the preventive health. In assistance of communities for providing health, measures are another important mission of Biocon Limited. In India, providing sanitation and public health is another vital objective of this organisation. The organisation wants in initiating education and screening for infectious diseases for preventing the diseases. In order to optimise the management of diseases, the organisation has been trying to manifest significant measures. Biocon Limited believes in the expansion of repertoire of the social protection, such as Arogya Raksha Yojana, Health micro-insurance for the most unprivileged section. Resources and Core-Capabilities of company: Resources and capabilities can be treated as the competitive advantage of the company. An organisation can have physical resources, legal resources, informational resources, relational resources and human resources. Biocon Limited has a well-managed human resource team. Current revenue of this company is 22.40 billion INR. Net income of the company at present is 3.61 billion INR (Bioconfoundation.org, 2016). This company is present in stock market. The organisation has been securing well growth with sustainable financial performance. Capabilities of the company depend on product management, pricing management, channel management and customer relation management. This company has been working in the field since 1978 with good reputation. Biocon Limited tries to improve the unmet needs of the patients. This company is the largest company in insulin making. This organisation is fully integrated company in biopharmaceutical focusing to reduce the costs in therapy. It is one of the leading companies in oncology department. This organisation has leading scientists for developing the affordable and efficacious products for all. They are working on development of the new solution in small molecules. This organisation engages scientists for technical and knowledge creation. Environmental Analysis- Pros and Cons SWOT The Indian pharmaceutical market is considered almost US $10.76 billion (Berman and Evans, 2013, p.1). The annual growth is almost 9.9% and is fast developing and creating new positions in the field of medicine through research and innovation. Strength Weakness   Cheap labour in Indian labour market   Comparatively less production cost   Availability skilled labour   Patients are treatment naive   Growing GDP, which helps common people spend more on medicine   Proper infrastructure underdeveloped   Unable to purchase expensive equipment   Separate education and research work Opportunities Threats   Great exposure to global market   Tax reduction by government   The success of new ventures   Demand in global sphere increasing   Skilled people moving out of country   Highly competitive market with new investments   The success of subsidiary unit than parent unit   Inflation of wage   Regulatory acts of government   Foreign groups are introduced in Indian market Table 1: SWOT Analysis (Source: Jayakumar, 2010, p.12) The cost of production is low and hence gets enough boosts to enhance its growth. The GDP is increasing giving more liquid money in hands of common people (Grundy et al. 2011, p.214). They are able to invest in the healthcare sector and to indirectly help the company. People are becoming more aware of their physical illness and they are heading towards treatment. New improved techniques are required to compete with the quality of products of the international market (Kor and Mesko, 2013, p.233). The equipment and machinery that Biocon India requires are quite costly and they are unable to avail all machinery (for further details refer to appendix 1). PESTLE The success of a company is very much dependent on internal and external macro and microenvironments. Both the internal and the external factors should be taken into consideration when the estimation of profit is done on the part of the management of the company. Political   Strategies of the government concerning the safety of the product made by the organisation influences its operations in a considerable manner   The internationalisation of the operations of the business organisation would be hugely influenced by the foreign policies of the government and the international relations of the Indian government with that of the target country   Indian Patent Act restricts the business organisation to secure the rights of using their innovation in term of manufacturing of the medicines which restricts the organisations capability of generating competitive advantage via research and development activities Economic   Value of money changes, which reduced the value of the seats of the company   Levy of taxes assigned by government increases the expenses of the pharmaceutical company Social   A major part of the target market believe more in homoeopathic than allopathic treatment, which restricts the business prospect of the company   Not all have the capability to buy the same amount of medicine. Technological   India is not technologically highly developed   Huge cost might be incurred in importing the machinery Legal   Drug Price Control Order 1970 has taken over the price making decision on the medicines Environmental   Regulations on noise pollution have been established   Regulations on environmental pollution have been established   Regulations on waste disposal have been introduced. Table 2: PESTLE for the external environment of Biocon India Group (Source: Lavie et al. 2012, p.1479) The Indian Patent Act, which has been introduced by the Indian government, has created a great problem (Grace, 2014, p.55) (refer to appendix 2). As opined by Casadesus-Masanell and Zhu (2013, p.466), technological advancement should be taken into consideration as it is one of the most crucial factors, which help in development of this sector. The legal procedure of the land, has taken control over the price making decision on the medicine produced by the company. The Drug Price Control Order 1970, has taken control on the pricing capability of the company. According to the law, the government has set a price for the medicines and the companies cannot cross the limit. This has created a negative impact as they have to control the price by cutting the coast in the other sections of the functioning of the organisation. Environment has been greatly affected by the industries. Hence, there are different regulations laid down by government so that the environment can be protected. The company Biocon has to limit its production and restrict its waste products. For this purpose, they had to take certain precautions like recycling the waste products and filtering the air. Competitive Life Cycle Analysis: There are four stages in the life cycle of the product. At first, the product is introduced in the market. Then the growth of the product takes place (Darroch, 2014, p.44). Then the growth level transform to the maturity level (Chen et al. 2016, p.2145). After the maturity level comes the decline stage. When at first, Biocon introduced their enzymes in the market, it was well accepted by the population and revenues started to roll in. Slowly, the enzymes were recognised in the market and it led to the popularity of the enzyme. With the popularity of the enzymes, the product reached its maximum point where it was earning huge profit. This profit led to the formation of Syngene another organisation under Biocon. Over the years, it has been seen that the popularity of enzymes fell from heights and paved for the other innovative products. Competitor analysis With the help of the competitor analysis, Biocon has been able to identify the marketing strategy with which it would evaluate the uniqueness of the product and attract the market where they want to enter or increase their sales. Currently Biocon is facing competition from companies like Alkem Lab, Ajanta Pharma, Ranbaxy Labs and many others from the size of their market and their competition. There are other small companies like Surya pharma and Ortin Labs that pose threat to Biocon. Though they are small in size, yet they are innovative in their products, they are slowly capturing the market. Market attractiveness evaluation Market insight observes that Contract Research Organisation in India has various challenges as well as it is an emerging market in India. The market of CRO did not observe boom as this slow growth in this sector took the business in present time to the emerging markets, like Indonesia and China (Cheng et al. 2014, p.22). The market values cannot be denied for the large population, attractive investment and cost-effective market. Five force analysis In recent time, the business environment has gone to extremely competitive. Each market has perfect competition. In perfect competition, no company can be price-taker (Henisz et al. 2014, p.1728). The companies are trying to create competitive advantage. Porters Five Forces model analyses the competitive advantages of a market. Contract research organisations are the pharmaceutical services providers that generally receive outsourcing from the large pharmaceutical as well as biotechs to conduct clinical trials and some of the other related services. Industry competition: In generic pharmaceuticals, it is a highly competitive market. It is important to innovate every moment to be in the field. Manty overseas companies have been doing great works in generic pharmaceuticals (Dezso and Ross, 2012, p.1078). At first, the drugs need to test and then, it can be produced in bulk. In order to be in the market, the price of the products needs to be competitive. Clinical research in India is to begin to take off and it could flourish in next few years. Figure 1: Porters Five Forces (Source: Grundy, 2011, p.2014) The threat of new entrants: For an entrepreneur, biopharmaceutical can be an option. Capital requirement of this industry is low. It is easy to create a network for distribution is easy. The government has put hindrance in the entry of this market. Having new patent is not easy (Ronda Pupo et al. 2012, p.162). The market for the generics is potential and huge. The pharmaceutical environment is dynamic. Development and new drugs play a significant role. Pharmaceuticals companies can take to direct to consumers approach to selling their products. The threat of substitutes: When the industry thrives, the demand for the specific drugs goes high. Pharmaceuticals industry has bright future, the threat of subsidiaries and biotechnology are high for the advancement of technology and researchers. Competitiveness is high and threats too (Peteraf et al. 2013, p.1389). The presence of strong multinational competitors in the market and the government's restrictions on the patent concerning the edible goods that require chemical for manufacture has increased the threat of substitute product in the market (Fjeldstad et al. 2012, p.735)(Refer to appendix 3). Identification of key success factors Value chain analysis Major factors in the value chain analysis are presented in the following figure. Figure 2: Value Chain analysis (Source: Bowersox et al. 2012, p.55) The activities of the business organisations concerning all the above-mentioned aspects determine the factors that might lead to success for the organisation. For example, the operational factors such as quality of the product and the expectations of the market determine if the company would be able to generate preference among the consumers concerning the products of the organisation. The research and development activities that Biocon India Group undertakes, distinct it from the other organisations that compete to acquire the preferences of consumers in the same market. (For further details, refer to appendix 4). In the following section the manner in which Biocon India Group generates competitive advantage for itself concerning, the above-mentioned factors have been discussed: Value analysis The voluminous target molecular reagents and customised molecules of Syngene paved the way for the early development and creation of the skills and infrastructural discovery of molecules (Kalegaonkar et al. 2012, p.65). The creation and initiation of Clingene, resulted in the loss of power and control by Biocon India Group, along with the entrapment of the central organisational culture. In the process of this creation, collaborative attempts were made to take into consideration safe and lower value business services for Clinigene, until it is capable of self-testing of the molecules and running free clinical (Walls et al. 2012, p.913). The distraction and deviation exposed by Clinigene regarding its consideration of the firm, that is, Biocon India Group, acted as a loss for the company, compelling the management to initiate the process of creation and development of the business all over again (Neffke and Henning, 2013, p.300). Planning and evaluation In order to achieve an overall growth, Biocon India Group certainly needs to expand its market share. In order to alleviate this situation, a simple yet expensive approach could be the initiation of a prospective Clinical Research Organisation (CRO). This will result in the escalation of the expertise and maintenance of stability within the relationship between the company its clients within the organisational culture (Easterbrook et al. 2011, p.869). The assistance and assurance from the Quality Assurance Company, regarding the quality of the Biocon products, encouraged and motivated the company to start their business a fresh, in spite of the deviation from Clingene. This is owing to the sharing of corporate values and trust among the employees and the other staffs (Kapferer, 2012, p.89). The high potential growth of the CRO might prove to be beneficial for Biocon, providing the scope and opportunity to Clingene regarding the careful and conscious reading and positioning within the CRO market. Strategic choice development Ansoff Matrix Ansoff matrix provides a business attempts for tracking the dependency of new and existing products in the market. In case of the existing market, the organisation needs to analyse the market penetration and product development. In new market, the organisation needs to analyse, market development and diversification (Darroch, 2014, p.35). Market penetration Market development The company wants to enhance the market share of the present products and intends to enter the markets of neighbouring countries (Gulati et al. 2012, p.576). While the first can be achieved through personal selling for the second the organisation needs to undertake outsourcing or franchising. The company needs to increase the existing customers. Biocon Limited tries to innovate in emerging market of biotechnology, research service and molecules. Restructuring can be helpful for overshadowing the competitors. The company needs to develop the geographical market through entering new markets. Pricing policies need to be adjusted as per the standards of the target market. Distribution channels such as online sites can provide assistance. The company has taken global manufacturing with cost effective way. Biocon Limited started to expand in Malaysia. Product Development Diversification The company needs to develop and research about the innovation of products with detailed analysis. They need to be the first in the market. Biocon Limited tries to innovate in insulin and molecules. They are working on oncology and next generation biotechnology. Research services, biosimilars and novel molecules are some of the products they are currently working on. It is related to growth of market to the new products. The company needs to analyse the risk strategy (Hill and Jones, 2013, p.45). The company first tries to grow the products in lab then take it to market and Biocon Limited is no exception to this. The company takes the strategy of risk assessment and able to procure reward for that. Table 3: Application of Ansoff Matrix (Source: Created by author) Deliberate Strategy: Plan for market expansion The management of Biocon India Groups can organise for a meeting to develop and create appropriate strategies for the expansion of the market share through the product and services (Refer to appendix 5). Specific The organisation might expand its sphere further through entering the neighbouring markets for which the organisation would need to outsource some of its activities in the target market Yet the policies of manufacturing and research and development would be same as the home country for ensuring that the values of the company remain the same in the target market as well Measurable This might be measured through the performance of the company in the international market Achievable The organisation has enough financial base to achieve this target Realistic Due to the current competition level of the industry and the existence of MNCs in the market the organisation has faced the need for increasing its sphere or operation hence it needs to undertake the internationalisation. This would increase the appeal of the organisation in the home market as well Time base This needs the time span of 2 years Table 3: SMART Analysis (Source: Created by Author) Emergent strategy: Hiring of qualified workers for international market expansion In order to hire qualified workers for the market expansion, the management authorities of Biocon can organise meetings regarding the recruitment of qualified workers (Ward and Peppard, 2016, p.65). Consequently, an effective organisational culture will be established where there is an existence of coordination, cooperation, stability and trust among the employees and the managerial staffs. Specific Hiring the skilled employees for the research and development process is essential for ensuring that the organisational current or future ventures are completed in a successful manner Measurable Success of this particular strategy might be evaluated based on the increased productivity of the organisation and its improved service quality For this, the organisation might use Achievable As the organisation operates in a market that has ample number of skilled employees that agree to serve in considerably low wages hence the recommendation is achievable Realistic As the strategy does not emphasise on any large expense of the company yet has the potential to improve the service and production level hence the strategy can be considered realistic Time base This strategy might be implemented in the time span of 3 months Table 4: SMART Analysis (Source: Created by Author) Choice of best-fit strategy and implementation Some strategies will emerge upon the implementation of the proposed strategies by the employees. In the process of this implementation, the creativity and productivity of the employees will be enhanced. They will gain much experience from the exposure of their skills, expertise and knowledge on a regular basis. As a consideration of the internal and the external factors, strategies for the expansion of Biocon market will enhance the reflex capability of the employees. This will provide the scope for the undertaking of actions according to the emergence of the business situations (Zhou and Li, 2012, p.1090). Evaluation of the strategic options presented above has enabled the researcher to identify that the internationalisation of the company might be essential yet it needs long-term stratification. For the immediate improvement of the organisational position in the market, the organisation needs to acquire employees that are more skilled and improve its product and service quality (Zhu and Iansiti, 2012, p.88). 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Religious Teachings Carl Barth

Introduction Church Dogmatic refers to the works of Carl Barth on various doctrines of God. Theology has received a massive attention from researchers since the inception of formal learning. For a long time, various individuals have been concerned with the ability to understand God. God works in a special way.Advertising We will write a custom research paper sample on Religious Teachings: Carl Barth – Church Dogmatic specifically for you for only $16.05 $11/page Learn More It has been in the interest of many scholars to create a clear understanding of the values of God. It is also their concern to help explain how human beings should relate to God.1 Carl Barth was one of the scholars who dedicated his entire live in trying to explain how this relationship works by coming up with doctrines to help clarify the issue. Theologians in the current society have increasingly found the work of this scholar highly valuable. The work of Pope Pius has had a h uge impact on the current practice of many theologians, as his principles were found to be very relevant. Although there were times when his views were nearly forgotten, current scholars have revived them with a huge impact. The works of this scholar are not only relevant to the Catholics but also to other religions. According to many contemporary scholars, the works of Carl Barth are important to both the Catholics and Protestants2. This is because of the focus of the scholar. The focus of his works is on Jesus Christ. He strongly believes that all religious matters start with Jesus. He observes that for an individual to understand Christianity, he or she must have an understanding of Jesus. Lack of proper understanding of Jesus would be a clear indicator that the individual lacks knowledge of the Christian religion. The second focus is on ethics. This scholar sums the teachings of Jesus as Ethics. Since Jesus knew that God works in an ethical way, he observed all religious princip les. Jesus’ teachings were based on acting ethically. When he was leaving the earth, he left only one commandment to be followed by all. The commandment was that people should love one another. This was meant to ensure that societies maintain ethics. When people develop love towards others, they maintain high ethical standards. Therefore, all other commandments would be automatically followed. This study seeks to unearth the assertiveness of the church as taught by Carl Barth. Thesis Statement Barth’s work was based on two fundamental factors, which are ethics and Jesus Christ. The work of this scholar is relevant to both the protestant and Catholic churches. This study is focused on analyzing his work and determining its relevance in the contemporary work.Advertising Looking for research paper on religion theology? Let's see if we can help you! Get your first paper with 15% OFF Learn More Scholars in the contemporary world can utilize the views of Barth to bring about unity and understanding in society. Church wrangles are not good for Christians. Church leaders fight in the public implying that they serve their own interests. The views of Barth, particularly on ethics, can help in ending wrangles. Need for Research Theology is one of the most developed fields of study. It is through the guidance of the spiritual leaders that the peace can be maintained in the society. According to this scholar, religion plays a very important role in society3. Some societies have been associated with certain acts because of the kind of religion they practice.4 Therefore, a sound religious understanding based on the teachings of Jesus can help maintain cohesion in the society. According to the report by this scholar, as the number of theologians increase around the world, evil deeds also increase5. Many people around the world are intolerant to the behavior of others. The results are deaths and other atrocities committed against the innocent. The churches today are no longer speaking in the same language. What one church upholds is exactly the doctrine the other church abhors. This has led to huge confusion in our current churches as leaders publicly disagree even on some fundamental principles. For instance, for a long time, Catholic priests have not been marrying. This has been one of the most important fundamental principles of this church. However, some of the catholic leaders have come out to oppose this principle. This brings about a lot of confusion to church members who trust and believe in their leaders6. The Bible talks about homosexuality, especially the cases of Sodom and Gomorrah. However, some leaders of the church support this behavior right inside the church. This brings a lot of confusion. There is need for proper guidance in the church. The society should be guided by religious values regarding what should be done and what should be avoided7. All these relate to ethics and the teachings of Jesus. Jesus gave a bar on how followers should behave.Advertising We will write a custom research paper sample on Religious Teachings: Carl Barth – Church Dogmatic specifically for you for only $16.05 $11/page Learn More This is what we need to emulate. Ethics and the teachings of Jesus have been brought out in the scholarly works of Carl Barth. It was therefore very important to undertake research in order to avoid current confusions and bring harmony in our current society8. It is important to shed more light on some of the fundamental issues in the church. Some church leaders are taking advantage of the confusion to introduce some habits that are bringing even further confusion. Discussion Carl Barth’s teachings were based on two main principles that closely guided his research work. This scholar was concerned about bringing a clear understanding of the forces around the world, which made people behave in a certain manner. He evaluated the relevance of people’s behavior in relation to the teachings of Jesus and the Bible’s message9. Carl Barth went against some of the principles of renowned scholars. In his first volume, he discussed the doctrine of Gog’s word. He tried to give the revelation of God. In God’s word, there was power. The word of God sets out to members of the church to help them in understanding the best practices in life. In the current society, it is very important to follow the word of God. Failing to follow his word may lead human beings into many sufferings. In his second volume of the doctrines of the word of God, the scholar brings out incantation of God’s word10. He explores the role and nature of the scripture. The scripture is the word of God because men of God wrote it after being inspired by God himself. In fact, Barth says that the authors of all the books in the Bible were writing the message given to them by God. A clear point is the Book of Revelation. In this book , God himself revealed to John the activities that would take place before the world would end11. The message in this book may be a little more challenging to understand because unlike other books talking about history, this book talks about the future. It would only be through God himself that God’s servant, John, could understand the future. In Exodus 20, God talks directly to Moses giving him the Ten Commandments. It is a clear demonstration that the Bible is the word of God.Advertising Looking for research paper on religion theology? Let's see if we can help you! Get your first paper with 15% OFF Learn More Given this fact, how then should we approach the bible? Some scholars have argued that there are some little contradictions between the old and the New Testament12. Of point to note is the ‘eye for an eye’ law that existed in the Mosaic Law. This was quite contrary to the teachings of Jesus. Jesus teaches his disciples that they should forgive seventy by seven times when wronged by an individual. How then would the same bible encourage forgiveness while there is a law that demands that the punishment should be meeting evil with an equal evil? However, Barth dispels these contradictions in his work saying that the followers should follow the teachings of Jesus13. This scholar says that when such contradictions arise in any parts of the bible, the guiding light should be ethics. The bible is based on ethics. Before acting in any given manner, the guiding light should be the ethics. In fact, this scholar argues that the bible has no contradiction at all unless one looks at it from a facial value. The bible records that during different times, there were different situations that demanded different actions. Barth argues that those different moments called for different actions from people. When God gave the Israelites commandments in the wilderness and other laws, it was supposed to help them to manage the challenges in the wilderness. This scholar notes that God gave the Israelites the power to kill their enemies. However, the commandments state that we should not kill. The message is clear and therefore it should not be interpreted differently. When he said that we should not kill, he was helping us to appreciate the fact that we should live as protectors of one another in society14. Procedure of the Study This study focuses on the works of Carl Barth. Carl Birth wrote a number of volumes of books, each with different approach. In this study, the researcher has focused on two main principles that Carl Barth held in his teachings. The study will anal ytically evaluate the teachings of Carl Barth on Jesus and ethics and determine how they lead to the generation of other principles. This scholar talks about the word of God, creation, and reconciliation among other principles. However, they all revolve around the two principles of Jesus’ teachings and ethics. This study will therefore relate the two main principles and the doctrines that this scholar bases his teachings on. Barth’s View of Trinity Barth’s work was considered revolutionary, given the then held beliefs. Barth’s work was a huge shift from what existed before. Many have considered the work of this scholar a little controversial15. It has been very challenging to understand the arguments of this scholar concerning trinity. By the time Barth started his work, trinity was not a new thing in the theological field. Several scholars had discussed it and many had given their view on the same. The work of Barth shows that he did not change the perce ption but gave it a new position. He gave trinity a front position in his work dubbed church dogmatic. His modalism approach has particularly received massive criticism from various fronts. His perception towards the use of the word ‘person’ has been a shift from what had been the norm for a long time. He dismissed tritheism as a heresy and baseless reasoning that could not hold in the current society16. Barth argued that God is one, and therefore he should be referred to as a mode of being. This way, he argues that people will eliminate any misunderstanding among themselves, Christian scholars, and even the leaders. Comparing Baths Findings and the Contemporary Thought of Knowledge Bath’s findings have proven to be very relevant in the contemporary world. In the current society, many theological scholars have found relevance in the teachings of Carl Birth. Carl Birth emphasized on two main issues for his readers. The first one was Jesus. This scholar says that J esus’ teachings should be the basis of learning for the current scholars. He says that Jesus taught the word of God with an open mind. He holds that when understanding the teachings of Jesus, one should have an open mind. Religion should not be considered a burden17. It is not meant to punish the believers by imposing retrogressive rules on the faithful. The teachings of Jesus and religion for that matter are meant to help people live in peace. Religion explains how people should relate with one another to ensure peaceful coexistence. For this reason therefore, the current society should be weary of the religion that is oppressive. Religion that dictates oppressive rules on its followers should be avoided at all costs18. The religion should help people live peacefully and happily. In this regard, religion should not deny people happiness. The second basis of Carl Barth’s work is on ethics. Ethics is the core of the religion according to the teachings of Barth. Religion and ethics are inseparable. Barth argues that religion teaches one to behave ethically19. In all the teachings of this scholar, he has emphasized the need for all societal members, especially the leaders, to maintain ethics in all their actions. It is important that a spiritual leader base his teachings on the ethical grounds other than on some of the Mosaic laws that have become archaic20. Some laws that were given to Moses during their journey to the Promised Land may not apply in the current world. It would therefore be important to ensure that ethics and religion are viewed as one. Conclusion Carl Birth was one of the greatest theologians in the twentieth century. His work has widely been considered very useful in the contemporary world. This theologian dedicated his life to writing books and other articles on various aspects of religion. Church dogmatic is a comprehensive work done by this scholar about the church and its relevance to the society. This scholar based his work o n two factors. The first factor was Jesus Christ. On this front, he held that everything starts with Jesus. The foundation would start with Jesus and then other factors would come afterwards. Jesus is the rock upon which Christian religion is based. One may not understand Christianity without understanding Jesus himself. By understanding Jesus, one would be in a position to understand his principles and therefore the principles of Christianity. Ethics, according to this scholar, is not separable from religion. It is important to appreciate the fact that religion is an attempt to shape the habit of people. The scholar holds that a careful analysis of the teachings of Jesus is based on ethics. He gave a lot of priority on ethical behavior, and never allowed any of his disciples to be swayed otherwise. A society that respects religion and maintains ethics is the one that would easily be prosperous and very peaceful. It is important that as a Christian, and based on the teachings of Car l Barth, one should strive to understand the teachings of Jesus and relate them to ethics. As discussed above, there should be an effort to ensure that ethics and religion are blended. It would be baseless to maintain a religious lifestyle without observing religious standards. In the society, the two are inseparable and therefore should be treated as one. This way, one would be in a position to lead a successful Christian life. Bibliography Baker, Benson. Crucial Moments: The 12 Most Important Events in Black Adventism. Hagerstown: Review and Herald, 2005. Cranfield, Christe. The Gospel According to St. Mark: An Introduction and Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963. Dowd, Samuel. Reading Mark: A Literary and Theological Commentary. Macon: Smyth Helwys, 2000. France, Richard. The Gospel of Mark: A Commentary on the Greek Text. New International Greek Commentary. Grand Rapids. Mich: Eerdmans, 2002. Gundry, Rose. Mark: A Commentary on His Apology for the Cross. Gra nd Rapids, Mich: Eerdmans, 1993. Hooker, Moses. The Gospel According to St. Mark. Black’s NT Commentary. Peabody: Hendrickson, 1991. Iersel, Brander. Van. Mark: A Reader-Response Commentary. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1988. Mitchell, Jane. Beyond Fear and Silence: A Feminist-Literary Reading of Mark. New York: Continuum, 2001. Myers, Cheiatine. Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus. New York: Orbis, 2008. Nineham, Emily. Saint Mark. Pelican Gospel Commentary. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964. Witherington, Boaz. The Gospel of Mark: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001. Footnotes 1 Witherington, Boaz. The Gospel of Mark: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001. Print. P. 78 2 Myers, Cheiatine. Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus. New York: Orbis, 2008. Print. P.16 3 Nineham, Emily. 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New International Greek Commentary. Grand Rapids. Mich: Eerdmans, 2002. Print. P. 67 12 France, Richard. The Gospel of Mark: A Commentary on the Greek Text. New International Greek Commentary. Grand Rapids. Mich: Eerdmans, 2002. Print. P. 94 13 Dowd, Samuel. Reading Mark: A Literary and Theological Commentary. Macon: Smyth Helwys, 2000. Print. P. 71 14 Cranfield, Christe. The Gospel According to St. Mark: An Introduction and Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963. Print. P. 62 15 Baker, Benson. Crucial Moments: The 12 Most Important Events in Black Adventism. Hagerstown: Review and Herald, 2005. Print. P 40 16 Witherington, Boaz. The Gospel of Mark: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001. Print.p. 129 17 Nineham, Emily. Saint Mark. Pelican Gospel Commentary. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964. Print. P. 67 18 Nineham, Emily. Saint Mark. Pelican Gospel Commentary. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964. Print. P. 126 19 Myers, Cheiatine. Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus. New York: Orbis, 2008. Print. P. 28 20Cranfield, Christe. The Gospel According to St. Mark: An Introduction and Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963. Print. P. 39 This research paper on Religious Teachings: Carl Barth – Church Dogmatic was written and submitted by user Eliza Hogan to help you with your own studies. You are free to use it for research and reference purposes in order to write your own paper; however, you must cite it accordingly. You can donate your paper here.