Theological ethics /
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Grand Rapids :
Eerdmans,
1979, c1964-1969
Grand Rapids : 1979, ©1964-1969 |
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Table of Contents:
- The problem of norms (2) natural law and the doctrine of the orders
- The problem of natural law
- Natural law in scholasticism
- A critique of the Roman Catholic view of natural law
- 'This world' and its orders
- Man's relation to the world
- Theme and method in ethics
- The three zones of ethical validity
- The conflict situations as typical of man's ethical relation to the world
- Compromise as an ethical problem
- Forms of compromise in the religious sphere
- Compromise and the limits of truthfulness
- God's 'compromises' with the world
- The borderline situation of extreme conflict
- Meaning and analysis of the borderline situation
- The commandments of God and the borderline situation
- The guidance of the Holy Spirit in the given situation
- Indexes
- VOLUME I: FOUNDATIONS
- Christian ethics in the age of secularism
- The challenge of secularism
- The challenge of humanism
- Dogmatics and ethics
- The place of evangelical ethics between the two Aeons
- The foundational principles of ethics
- Justification and sanctification
- Co-ordination of the indicative and the imperative
- Law and gospel as constant partners
- The continuing pedagogic significance of the law for believers
- The command of the Creator and the law for the fallen world
- The command of creation and the image of God in man
- The Christological character of the Imago Dei
- The Evangelical-Roman Catholic debate on Creation and the original state
- The Evangelical-Roman Catholic debate on justification and grace
- Implications of the Imago doctrine for evangelical ethics
- The law of the fallen world
- The problem of norms (1) Conscience
- The evangelical view of conscience
- The impossibility of conscience as a point of contact for the law of God
- Luther's doctrine of the "Two Kingdoms."
- VOLUME II: POLITICS
- Political ethics in the modern world
- Authority and democracy
- Authority and totalitarianism
- Authority and the autonomies
- The nature of the state
- Phenomenology of the state
- Theology of the state
- Concrete illustrations of the ethical consequences
- Borderline situations
- Resistance to state authority
- Revolution
- War
- The theological debate on church and state
- The message of the church to the world
- VOLUME III: SEX
- Introduction
- The duality of man: biblical anthropology of the sexes
- Eros and agape: theological phenomenology of the human sex relationship
- Introduction
- the problem: the interconnection of bios and person in the realm of eros
- The libido, animan and human
- The realization of the sex nature
- The order of marriage
- The biblical interpretation of marriage
- The sacramental and the 'worldly' interpretations of marriage. Controversial theological considerations
- The changed position of woman in the family and in society (the problem of the equality of the sexes)
- Divorce and the remarriage of divorced persons
- Borderline situations
- Birth control (the problem of optional sterility)
- Interruption of pregnancy (the problem of artificial abortion)
- Artificial insemination
- The problem of homosexuality
- Conclusion
- v. 1. Foundations
- v. 2. Politics
- v. 3. Sex
- v. 1. Foundations
- v. 2. Politics
- v. 3. Sex