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Christian personal ethics

Study which takes seriously both the moral revelation of Christianity and the ethical alternatives of speculative philosophy.

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Glavni autor: Henry, Carl F. H. 1913-2003 (-)
Vrsta građe: Knjiga
Jezik: eng
Impresum: Grand Rapids : Eerdmans, c1957.
Predmet:
Theology, Moral > Christian ethics.
Teologija, Moralna > Kršćanska etika.
Christian ethics.
Kršćanska etika.
Sadržaj:
  • Introduction: The loss of human worth in modern life and the hope of its recovery in the zone of Christian redemption
  • Section I: Speculative philosophy and the moral quest
  • Naturalistic ethics and the animalization of the moral life
  • I. Elemental naturalism
  • A. Ancient: Sophism
  • B. Ancient: Cyrenaicism
  • C. Ancient: Cynicism
  • D. Modern Reflections
  • II. Systematic naturalism
  • A. Hedonistic naturalism
  • I. Ancient: epicureanism
  • 2. Modern: utilitarianism
  • 3. Modern: evolutionary ethics
  • B. Political naturalism
  • I. Ancient: Thrasymachus
  • 2. Modern: Machiavelli
  • 3. Modern: Hobbes
  • 4. Modern: Nietzsche
  • 5. Modern: Marx
  • C. Religious naturalism
  • 1. Ancient: stoicism
  • 2. Modern: Spinozism
  • 3. Modern: humanism
  • III. Relativistic naturalism
  • A. Pragmatism
  • B. Logical positivism
  • IV. Irrational naturalism
  • A. Idealistic ethics and the deification of the moral life
  • 1. Elemental idealism
  • A. Ancient: Polemarchus
  • B. Ancient: Glaucon
  • C. Modern reflections
  • II. Systematic idealism
  • A. Rational idealism: Plato, Aristotle, Hegel
  • B. Postulational idealism: Kant. personalism
  • C. Irrational reaction
  • 3. Existential ethics and the intensification of the moral life
  • I. Elemental existentialism
  • II. Philosophical existentialism
  • A. Atheistic: Sartre, Heidegger
  • B. Theistic: Jaspers
  • III. Revelational existentialism: Kierkegaard, Barth, Brunner
  • Section II: Christianity and the moral revelation: The redemption of the moral life
  • 4. The image of God created and sullied
  • Relation of speculative ethics and revealed ethics
  • Hebrew-Christian ethics asserts a unique basis
  • No fixed contact between secular and Christian systems
  • Yet Imago Dei supplies a point of connection between persons
  • The form and content of the Imago by creation and in sin
  • 5. Christian ethics and the anitheses of speculative morality
  • Love of God and man superior to mysticism or humanism
  • Bondage to Christ superior to autonomy or necessity
  • Revelational ethics superior to its speculative form and content
  • Love for neighbor as for self superior to egoism or altruism
  • Obedience to God superior to happiness or duty as motives
  • 6. The world of fallen morality
  • Progression of the rule and reign of God defeat of Satan and the demonic powers
  • Christian triumph over death
  • Abolition of the Law
  • Rescue of man from the enslavement of sin
  • Conquests of the Holy Spirit in human life
  • 7. Transcendent revelation as the source of Christian ethics
  • Christian ethics based on more than metaphysical speculation
  • Christian ethics not anchored merely in religious supernaturalism
  • Christian ethics as the morality of revealed religion
  • Christian ethics as the morality of the Divine covenant
  • Christian ethics as the morality of the believing Church
  • 8. The good as the will of God as Lord
  • The Hebrew-Christian identification of the good with God's will
  • The modern dissatisfactions with duty and happiness as motives
  • The will of God no mere philosophic postulation
  • The glory of the Hebrews their knowledge of the will of God
  • 9. Love, the divine imperative in personal relations
  • The uniqueness of the Christian ethic of love
  • The example of unrequited love in the life of Jesus
  • The implications of the ethic of love for daily life
  • 10. The determination of the content of the moral life
  • The loss of biblical authority leads to nebulous views of the Divine will
  • The appeal to love alone an inadequate guide
  • The serviceability of the linago before the fall
  • The serviceability of the imago after the fall
  • The significance of special revelation in defining the content morality
  • Love and commandments not antithetical
  • 11. The Biblical particularization of the moral life: The Old Testament
  • The content of morality defined by Scriptural revelation
  • The Genesis narrative includes the essential ethical elements
  • Distinction between perpetual and temporary obligations
  • The Mosaic law reinforces the creation ordinances
  • The prophets as forthtellers and foretellers
  • 12. The Biblical particularization of the will. The sermon on the mount
  • The humanistic evolutionary interpretation
  • The liberal social-gospel interpretation
  • The dispensational futuristic interpretation
  • The "interim ethic" interpretation
  • The existential interpretation
  • The Sermon an exposition of the deeper implications of the moral Jaw
  • Personal and official relations
  • 13. The Biblical particularization of the will of God: The larger New Testament
  • The reinforcement of the ethics of creation, of Sinai and of the Sermon
  • New Testament obedience includes more than the commandments
  • The acceptance of Christ and the following of His teaching and example
  • The teaching of the Apostles
  • The New Testament applies and illustrates the revealed ethic
  • 14. The law and the gospel
  • Older controversies over the relevance of the Law
  • Recent controversies over the relevance of the Law
  • The Law as a scripturally fixed nile of life
  • The political purpose of the Law
  • The pedagogic purpose of the Law
  • The didactic purpose of the Law
  • 15. Christian ethics as predicated on the atonement
  • The atonement as the presupposition of Christian morality
  • Rejection of atonement as a baleful influence misguided
  • Concealment of atonement as an attack on objective morality
  • 16. Christian ethics as the morality of the regenerate man
  • The Christian life a newly-given existence in Christ
  • The crucifixion, not the improvement, of the old nature
  • Human character as determinative of conduct
  • 17. Jesus as the ideal of Christian ethics
  • The propriety of Jesus as an example incarnation of obedience
  • The incarnation of absolute perfection
  • The incarnation of holy love
  • 18. New Testament principles of conduct
  • The believer's life one of Christian liberty in grace
  • Liberty is to glorify God, not to pursue sin
  • The defilement of conscience
  • The stumbling-block in the path of weaker believers
  • The reproach of unbelievers
  • The avoidance of common cause with unbelievers
  • Answerability to a temporary or local code
  • 19. The Holy Spirit, the Christian ethical dynamic
  • The Spirit as promoting a new tide of ethical vitality
  • The Spirit as sustaining higher levels of morality
  • The Spirit as enlisting the masses in moral earnestness
  • The rule of the Spirit the decisive criterion of Christian living
  • The Christian life as Christ-centered and Spirit-empowered
  • The believer stands, in the Spirit, in an end-time relation to Christ
  • The Spirit baptizes believers into one body
  • The Spirit seals the believer
  • The Spirit fills the believer
  • The New Testament relating of the Spirit to moral power
  • 20. The Christian life as a possession
  • Modern assaults on the perseverance of the saints
  • The Christian life abides in Christ
  • A life not of perfection, but of growth in purity
  • 21. The distinctive New Testament virtues
  • Philosophical and theological virtues contrasted
  • The virtues Jesus approbated
  • The Pauline virtues
  • 22. Conscience as a Christian
  • Conscience in its biblical sense
  • Conscience in relation to Christ
  • The good and the bad conscience
  • The education of conscience
  • Freedom of conscience
  • 23. Motives and sanctions of the good life
  • The motives of Christian behavior
  • The primacy of gratitude
  • The necessity of responsive love
  • The legitimacy of desire for reward
  • The sanctions of Christian behavior
  • 24. Eschatological sanction for ethics
  • The detachment of the ethical from the eschatological
  • The reassertion of a formal eschatological sanction
  • The compromise of an essential eschatological sanction futile
  • 25. Christian morality and the life of prayer
  • The prayerless life not the good life
  • The life of prayer no compensation for ethical living
  • The indispensability of prayer for Christian life
  • Bibliography
  • Index of persons
  • Index of subjects
  • Index of scripture.

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