Christian Ethics: A Historical and Systematic Analysis of its Dominant Ideas 9780773592711

Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Foreword
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Address to the Religio-Cultural World-Community
Epoche as Religio-Cultural Disengagement
Beyond Epoche: The Need for Overarching Principles
THE THEORETICAL PRINCIPLES
THE NEED FOR EVALUATION
THE NATURE OF THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
METARELIGION
Being is of Two Realms: Ideal and Actual
Ideal Being is Relevant to Actual Being
Relevance of the Ideal to the Actual is a Command
Actual Being is as Such Good
Actual Being is Malleable
Perfection of the Cosmos is Only a Human Burden
The Muslim-Christian Dialogue
Shortcomings of the Christian Comparative Discipline
BISHOP STEPHEN NEILL AND HENDRIK KRAEMER
A C BOUQUET AND ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Notes
PART ONE: What is the Ethic of Jesus?
I THE JEWISH BACKGROUND: JEWISH ETHIC
The Nature of Hebrew Racialism
Hebrew Scripture as a Record of Hebrew Racialism
The Ethico-Political Situation at the Time of Jesus
The Cult of the Law
Notes
II THE ETHICAL BREAKTHROUGH OF JESUS
In Reaction to Jewish Ethic
The Ethic of Intent
The Final Disposition of the Law
The Content of Self-Transformation
The 'Firstness' of the First Command
Notes
III DIALECTIC OF THE NEW ETHIC
The Old Values and the New
IN THE REALM OF THE POLITICAL
IN THE REALM OF THE SOCIAL
IN THE REALM OF THE FAMILY
IN THE REALM OF THE PERSONAL
IN THE REALM OF THE COSMIC
The Ethic of Jesus and Christian Legalism
Notes
IV THE SUFI PARALLEL
The Parallelism
Its Explanation
Notes
PART TWO: The Christianist Transvaluation
V WHAT IS MAN? THE IMAGO DEI
In Hellenic Christianity
In Pre-Reformation Christianity
In the Reformation
In the Christianity of Modern Times
Notes
VI WHAT OUGHT MAN TO BE? SIN AND SALVATION
Man is a Fallen Creature: Peccatism
THE JEWISH BACKGROUND
THE CHRISTIANIST TRANSVALUATION OF THE JEWISH IDEA OF THE FALL
SIN IN THE GOSPEL
SIN IN THE TEACHING OF PAUL
SIN IN THE TEACHING OF THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS
SIN BEFORE AUGUSTINE '
AUGUSTINE: THE EXEMPLAR OF PECCATISM
SIN IN THE REFORMATION
PECCATISM AND CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
Man is Reconciled: Saviourism
CHRISTIANITY IS THE RELIGION OF REDEMPTION '
THE NATURE OF SAVIOURIST SALVATION
Notes
VII WHAT OUGHT MAN TO BE? CHURCH AND SOCIETY
Societism and Personalism
Christianism and Society
IN TRADITIONAL THEOLOGY
IN MODERN THEOLOGY
The Case of William Temple
The Case of Karl Barth
IN THE THEOLOGY OF THE FUTURE
The Lack of Societist Foundations and the Split Consciousness of Western Man
The Societist Transvaluation
The A-Societism of Reinhold Niebuhr
Conclusion
Notes
EPILOGUE
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
INDEX OF BIBLICAL QUOTATIONS
INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BOOK TITLES

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