Christian personal ethics / (Record no. 13892)
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| Classification number | 241.611/HEN |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Henry, Carl F.H. |
| Fuller form of name | (Carl Ferdinand Howard), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1913-2003. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Christian personal ethics / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Carl F.H. Henry |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Pbk Ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Grand Rapids, MI : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Baker, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1977. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 615 p. ; |
| Other physical details | pbk ; |
| Dimensions | 23 cm. |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Twin brooks series. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction: The loss of human worth in modern life and the hope of its recovery in the zone of Christian redemption. |
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| Formatted contents note | Section I: Speculative philosophy and the moral quest.<br/>1. Naturalistic ethics and the animalization of the moral life :<br/>I. Elemental naturalism :<br/>A. Ancient: Sophism -- B. Ancient: Cyrenaicism -- C. Ancient: Cynicism -- D. Modern Reflections.<br/>II. Systematic naturalism :<br/>A. Hedonistic naturalism : 1. Ancient: epicureanism ; 2. Modern: utilitarianism ; 3. Modern: evolutionary ethics. --<br/>B. Political naturalism : 1. Ancient: Thrasymachus ; 2. Modern: Machiavelli ; 3. Modern: Hobbes ; 4. Modern: Nietzsche ; 5. Modern: Marx. --<br/>C. Religious naturalism : 1. Ancient: stoicism ; 2. Modern: Spinozism ; 3. Modern: humanism. --<br/>III. Relativistic naturalism : <br/>A. Pragmatism -- B. Logical positivism. --<br/>IV. Irrational naturalism.<br/><br/>2. Idealistic ethics and the deification of the moral life :<br/>I. Elemental idealism :<br/>A. Ancient: Polemarchus -- B. Ancient: Glaucon -- C. Modern reflections.<br/>II. Systematic idealism :<br/>A. Rational idealism: Plato, Aristotle, Hegel -- B. Postulational idealism: Kant. personalism -- C. Irrational reaction.<br/><br/>3. Existential ethics and the intensification of the moral life :<br/>I. Elemental existentialism --<br/>II. Philosophical existentialism : A. Atheistic: Sartre, Heidegger --<br/>B. Theistic: Jaspers.<br/>III. Revelational existentialism: Kierkegaard, Barth, Brunner. |
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| Formatted contents note | Section II: Christianity and the moral revelation: The redemption of the moral life.<br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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 --<br/>Abolition of the Law -- Rescue of man from the enslavement of sin --<br/>Conquests of the Holy Spirit in human life.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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 --<br/>The glory of the Hebrews their knowledge of the will of God. <br/><br/>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 --<br/>The implications of the ethic of love for daily life.<br/><br/>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 --<br/>The serviceability of the imago after the fall -- The significance of special revelation in defining the content morality -- Love and commandments not antithetical.<br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>17. Jesus as the ideal of Christian ethics : The propriety of Jesus as an example incarnation of obedience -- The incarnation of absolute perfection --<br/>The incarnation of holy love. <br/><br/>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 --<br/>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.<br/><br/>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 --<br/>The Spirit fills the believer -- The New Testament relating of the Spirit to moral power. <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>21. The distinctive New Testament virtues : Philosophical and theological virtues contrasted -- The virtues Jesus approbated --<br/>The Pauline virtues.<br/><br/>22. Conscience as a Christian : Conscience in its biblical sense --<br/>Conscience in relation to Christ -- The good and the bad conscience --<br/>The education of conscience -- Freedom of conscience.<br/><br/>23. Motives and sanctions of the good life : The motives of Christian behavior -- The primacy of gratitude -- The necessity of responsive love --<br/>The legitimacy of desire for reward -- The sanctions of Christian behavior.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>25. Christian morality and the life of prayer : The prayerless life not the good life -- The life of prayer no compensation for ethical living --<br/>The indispensability of prayer for Christian life. |
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