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Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
340

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Table of Contents

The love of God and the decay of the world --
The world of conflicts --
Shame --
Shame and conscience --
The world of recovered unity --
The Pharisee --
Proving --
Doing --
Love --
The church and the world --
The total and exclusive claim of Christ --
Christ and good people --
Ethics as formation --
The theoretical ethicist and reality --
Ecce Homo! --
The despiser of men --
The successful man --
The idolization of death --
Conformation --
The concrete place --
Inheritance and decay --
Guilt, Justification and renewal --
The confession of guilt --
Justification and the healing of the wound --
The last things and the things before the last --
Justification as the last word --
The penultimate --
The preparing of the way --
The natural --
Natural life --
Suum cuique --
The right to bodily life --
Suicide --
Reproduction and nascent life --
The freedom of bodily life --
The natural rights of the life of the mind --
Christ, reality and good (Christ, the church and the world) --
The concept of reality --
Thinking in terms of two spheres --
The four mandates --
History and good --
Good and life --
The structure of responsible life --
Deputyship --
Correspondence with reality --
The world of things - Pertinence - Statecraft --
The acceptance of guilt --
Conscience --
Freedom --
The place of responsibility --
Vocation --
The 'ethical' and the 'Christian' as a theme --
The warrant for ethical discourse --
The commandment of God --
The concrete commandment and the divine mandates --
The concept of the mandate --
The commandment of God in the church --
The doctrine of the primus usus legis according to the Lutheran sybolia writings --
The concept and its usefulness --
The theological justification for the doctrine --
Interest in the concept --
Definition --
Contents --
Its purpose --
Means of execution --
The proclaimer --
The healer --
The primus usus and the gospel --
Some deductions and questions --
Critique of the doctrine of usus in the Lutheran symbolic writings --
'Personal' and 'real' ethos --
Personal or real ethos --
The New Testament --
The symbolic writings --
Some criticisms of Dilschneider's thesis --
Systematic consideration concerning the assertions which Christian ethics may make with regard to secular institutions --
State and church --
The concepts involved --
The basis of government --
In the nature of man --
In sin --
In Christ --
The divine character of government --
In its being --
In its task --
In its claim --
Government and the divine institutions in the world --
Government and church --
Government's claim on the church --
The church's claim on government --
The ecclesiastical responsibility of government --
The political responsibility of the church --
Conclusions --
The church and the form of the state --
On the possibility of the word of the church to the world --
What is meant by 'telling the truth?' --
Indexes --
Names --
Subjects --
Biblical references --
References to the Lutheran Symbolic Writings.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
New York
Series
The Library of philosophy and theology, Library of philosophy and theology

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
171.1
Library of Congress
BJ1253 .B615 1955a

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 340 p. ;
Number of pages
340

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24931828M
Internet Archive
ethics00bonh
LCCN
55012644
OCLC/WorldCat
374014

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