The principles of Christian ethics /

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Main Author: Knudson, Albert C. (Albert Cornelius), 1873-1953
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; Nashville : Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, ©1943.
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505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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