Titre : |
Christian personal ethics |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
Henry, Carl F. H. (Ferdinand Howard) (1913-2003), Auteur |
Editeur : |
Grand Rapids : Eerdmans |
Année de publication : |
c1957 |
Importance : |
xi, 615 p. |
Format : |
24 cm |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
Catégories : |
Christian ethics
|
Résumé : |
Study which takes seriously both the moral revelation of Christianity and the ethical alternatives of speculative philosophy. |
Note de contenu : |
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. |
Christian personal ethics [texte imprimé] / Henry, Carl F. H. (Ferdinand Howard) (1913-2003), Auteur . - Grand Rapids : Eerdmans, c1957 . - xi, 615 p. ; 24 cm. Langues : Anglais ( eng)
Catégories : |
Christian ethics
|
Résumé : |
Study which takes seriously both the moral revelation of Christianity and the ethical alternatives of speculative philosophy. |
Note de contenu : |
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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