The principles of Christian ethics / Albert C. Knudson
- Bib ID:
- 7084026
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Knudson, Albert C. (Albert Cornelius), 1873-1953, author
- Edition:
- War edition.
- Description:
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- New York ; Nashville Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1943
- ©1943
- 314 pages ; 24 cm
- Full contents:
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- PART I. Introduction
- CHAPTER 1. The province of Christian ethics
- Distinction between Christian and philosophical ethics
- Elimination Theories
- Schopenhauer, Hartmann, Nietzsche
- Barth
- Brunner
- Absorption Theories
- W. Herrmann
- E.W. Mayer
- A. Runestam
- Supplementary Theories
- Augustine and Aquinas
- Schleiermacher
- B. Troeltsch
- H.H. Wendt
- A. Nygren
- Fundamental problems
- Relation of religion to morality
- Distinctive nature of the Christian ethic
- Adjustment of Christian ideal to necessities of civilization
- Conclusion
- Relation of Christian to philosophical ethics.
- CHAPTER 2. The history of Christian Ethics
- Definition of Christian ethics
- Moral teaching of Christianity its permanent element
- History as an interpreter of the Christian moral ideal
- Ethical teaching of Jesus
- Its relation to contemporary Judaism
- Principle of love
- Principle of inwardness
- Religious basis of Jesus' ethic
- Ethical emphases in early and medieval church
- Charity
- 'Interim ethic'
- Legalism
- Ethical dualism
- Christian philanthropy
- Chastity
- New monastic ideal
- Dualistic philosophy
- Worldliness of church
- Penance and military service
- Meaning of penance
- Protestant attitude toward penitential system
- Early Christian attitude to war
- Militarization of Christianity
- Ethical emphases in protestantism
- The sanctity of the common life
- Social application of the Christian ethic
- Theoretical ethics
- Natural law
- Augustine
- Aquinas
- Protestant reformers
- Modern Protestantism
- Universal and comprehensive character of the Christian ethic.
- PART II. Presuppositions
- CHAPTER 3. The moral nature
- Three presuppositions of Christian ethic
- Meaning of the moral nature
- Hedonism
- Natural law
- Stoic law of nature
- Natural law in early and medieval church
- Natural law in protestant ethics
- Ethical value of idea of natural law
- Fundamental elements
- Distinction between right and wrong
- Idea of 'ought'
- Principle of good will
- Ideal of humanity
- Sacredness of personality
- Freedom
- Naturalistic determinism
- Theological determinism
- Metaphysical freedom and its vital Importance.
- CHAPTER 4. Structure of the moral nature
- Psychological origin of predisposition to evil
- Moral nature as capacity for moral experience
- Acquired moral nature
- Inherent sinfulness of man
- Universality of sin and its explanation
- Distinction between standpoint of merit and that of ideal
- Dualism of nature and grace
- Psychological factors conditioning moral life
- Ecclesiastical doctrine of sin
- Jewish theories of origin of sin
- Paul's contributions to doctrine of sin
- Pelagian, semi-Pelagian, and Arminian theories of sin
- Augustinian and Calvinistic theory of sin
- Barthian theory
- Ethical significance of Christian doctrine of sin
- Sin and moral evil
- Concupiscence
- Sensuality and pride
- Idea of the "demonic"
- Objections to doctrine of original sin
- Moral values in traditional doctrine of sin
- Religious solution of moral problem.
- CHAPTER 5. Conversion
- The Christian cure for pride
- The Christian cure for pessimism and despair
- Meaning of conversion
- Psychological study of conversion and its significance
- Plasticity of human nature
- Ethical conversion
- Conversion and prophetic religions
- W. James's definition of conversion
- Conversion in New Testament
- Ethical significance
- Conversion as liberating experience
- Conversion as new dynamic
- conversion as source of new moral insight
- Individualism and sectarianism of conversion
- Conversion and evangelical revival
- Decline of interest in conversion
- Universal need of conversion.
- PART III. The moral ideal
- CHAPTER 6. The principle of love
- Love a universal principle in personal and social world
- New Testament basis of duty of love
- Fundamental nature of love
- Different meanings of love
- Nygren's theory of love as purely giving love
- Augustine's caritas theory
- Luther's theory
- Self-Love and duties to self
- Love to others "unmotivated"
- Rejection of self-love by some Christian moralists
- Altruism and egoism
- Love to God and God's own love
- New Testament view of love to God
- Augustine's theory of relation of our love of God to self-love and love of neighbor
- Augustine's conception of God's own love
- Moral worth in objects of Christian love
- Such worth essential to moral love
- "Court duties"
- Relation of eros and agape to each other
- Brotherly love and its conditioning factors
- Presuppositions of brotherly love
- The moral ideal
- Orders of creation.
- CHAPTER 7. The principle of perfection
- Two historic attempts to reduce Christian ethic to unitary principle
- Objection to Nygren's agape theory
- Relation of love and perfection to each other
- Principle of perfection in New Testament
- Self-renunciation
- Perfection and self-denial in Jesus' teaching
- Christian renunciation in relation to Buddhism and hedonism
- Basis and value of Christian self-denial
- Asceticism
- Distinction between asceticism and general principle of renunciation
- Jesus and asceticism
- Monasticism
- Karl Adam's interpretation of monastic asceticism
- Sinlessness
- Different degrees of sinless perfection
- Relative sinlessness and its possibility in this life
- Mistaken views of sin
- William Law and perfectionism
- Self-realization
- Meaning and value of self-realization from religious standpoint
- Perils in perfectionism.
- CHAPTER 8. Christian character
- Distinction between moral character and moral principles
- Example of Jesus
- Relativity of Jesus' teaching and conduct
- Uniqueness of his mission and its bearing on his moral authority
- The natural Life
- Alleged antithesis between Christian and natural morality
- Distinctive elements in Christian character
- Relation of Christian ethic to moral ideals of Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans
- The Christian virtues
- Lists of virtues in New Testament and their relation to cardinal virtues of Greeks
- Brotherly love
- Purity
- Humility
- Patience
- Fidelity
- Hope
- Distinctive elements in cardinal Christian virtues
- Early Christianity and world.
- PART IV. Practical application
- CHAPTER 9. The individual
- Duties included under ethics of individual
- Duties to self
- Theological objection to duties to self
- Duties and rights
- Denial of natural rights by philosophical and theological moralists
- Self -preservation and self-realization
- Naturalistic and theistic basis of duty to preserve self
- Duty of self-realization
- The Christian's "calling" in its historical development
- Criticism of protestant conception of vocation
- Conflict of duties
- Works of supererogation
- Morally indifferent spheres of conduct
- Right to life and self-defense
- Right to eternal life
- Suicide
- Self-defense a Christian right
- Right to freedom
- Limitation of freedom
- Right to truth
- Right to property.
- CHAPTER 10. The family
- The orders of creation and social gospel
- Divisions of social ethics
- Ethical significance of family
- Distinctiveness of human family
- Origin of family
- Criticisms of Christian influence on family and replies to them
- Family as training school of moral life
- The moral validity of marriage
- Free choice of couple concerned
- Necessity of marriage ceremony
- Monogamy
- Influence of Christianity on development of monogamy
- Arguments in favor of monogamy
- Divorce
- The Christian ideal
- History of Christian attitude toward divorce
- Moral justification of divorce
- Birth Control
- Objections to it
- Considerations in support of it.
- CHAPTER 11. The state and war
- The state as an order of creation
- Origin of the state
- The state both natural and artificial
- Psychological roots of the state
- Essential nature of the state
- The state as power
- The state as instrument of justice
- Sovereignty of state
- Penal law
- Two moral grounds of the penal law
- Conception of wrongdoing as a disease
- Punishment and guilt
- Punishment as function of state
- Purpose of punishment
- Capital punishment
- War and the Christian ideal
- Treitschke's view
- Is war inevitable?
- Naturalistic and theological grounds for affirmative answer
- Possibility of a warless world
- Can there be a just war?
- Meaning of just war
- Christian aversion to shedding of blood
- Futility of war
- Principle of non-resistance
- Distinction between army and police force
- Resistance to evil or anarchy
- Methods of promoting peace
- Growth of peace sentiment
- Absolute pacifism
- Removal of economic and nationalistic causes of war
- League of nations.
- CHAPTER 12. The church and culture
- Church and culture here treated as independent phases of community life
- Nature of church
- Church as order of creation
- Ethical function of church
- Unity of church
- Catholic and protestant conceptions of church unity
- Schisms
- Theocratic imperialism
- Persecution
- Objections to it
- Ecclesiastical discipline
- Its relation to persecution
- Other evil results
- Sacrament of penance
- Value of church discipline
- Church and state
- Causes of conflicts between them
- Rights of the church
- Separation of church and state
- State absolutism
- Distinction between church and other subordinate social unions
- The church and tyranny
- Culture
- Meaning of culture
- Civilization
- Culture as order of creation
- Its relation to religion
- Science and religion
- Art and religion
- Education.
- CHAPTER 13. The economic order
- Nature and purpose of economic order
- An order of creation
- Pessimistic view
- Optimistic view
- Philosophical basis of two different views of economic order
- Consumption and distribution
- Christian teaching concerning consumption
- Economic equality
- Charity as a cure for poverty and reasons for its failure
- Transition from moral and voluntary to legislative and compulsory methods of reform
- Justice as moral basis of social change
- Labor
- Work a duty
- Dignity of labor
- Three functions of labor emphasized by reformation
- Unsolved labor problems
- Capital and capitalism
- Meaning of capital
- Attitude toward wealth in New Testament
- Opposition to interest or usury
- Capitalism, its merits and defects
- Christian attitude toward economic system and its reform.
- PART V. Conclusion
- CHAPTER 14. The validity of Christian ethics
- Philosophical justification of moral life
- Divine will as Ground of Christian ethics
- Assumed antithesis between theocentric and autonomous morality
- Divine will not an independent source of moral insight
- Schopenhauer and Hartmann
- Prophetic moralization of religion and its hearing on principle of moral autonomy
- General moral skepticism
- Different methods of discrediting idea of duty
- Similar arguments would lead to intellectual skepticism
- Self-verification the ultimate basis of all spiritual ideals
- Ethic of power
- Nietzsche's rejection of the Christian ethic
- His immoralism
- The pragmatic test
- Criticisms of Christian ethic: lack of virility, antimoralism, sacrifice of intellectual and moral integrity, false spirituality, irrelevance
- Replies to these criticisms
- Distinction between Christian ideal and practice
- Humanitarian influence of Christianity and its apologetic significance
- Religious basis of Christian ethic
- Charge of otherworldliness
- Christian faith and Christian ethic support each other.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Christian ethics
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