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Ethics : Edited by Eberhard Bethge. [Translated by Neville Horton Smith].

By: Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945Language: engger Series: The Library of Philosophy and theologyPublication details: New York : Macmillan, 1955. Description: xii, 340 p. ; 22 cmUniform titles: Ethik. English Subject(s): Christian ethicsDDC classification: 171.1 LOC classification: BJ1253 | .B615 1955a
Contents:
The love of God and the decay of the world -- The world of conflicts -- Shame -- Shame and conscience -- The world of recovered unity -- The Pharisee -- Proving -- Doing -- Love -- The church and the world -- The total and exclusive claim of Christ -- Christ and good people -- Ethics as formation -- The theoretical ethicist and reality -- Ecce Homo! -- The despiser of men -- The successful man -- The idolization of death -- Conformation -- The concrete place -- Inheritance and decay -- Guilt, Justification and renewal -- The confession of guilt -- Justification and the healing of the wound -- The last things and the things before the last -- Justification as the last word -- The penultimate -- The preparing of the way -- The natural -- Natural life -- Suum cuique -- The right to bodily life -- Suicide -- Reproduction and nascent life -- The freedom of bodily life -- The natural rights of the life of the mind. Christ, reality and good (Christ, the church and the world) -- The concept of reality -- Thinking in terms of two spheres -- The four mandates -- History and good -- Good and life -- The structure of responsible life -- Deputyship -- Correspondence with reality -- The world of things -- Pertinence -- Statecraft -- The acceptance of guilt -- Conscience -- Freedom -- The place of responsibility -- Vocation -- The 'ethical' and the 'Christian' as a theme -- The warrant for ethical discourse -- The commandment of God -- The concrete commandment and the divine mandates -- The concept of the mandate -- The commandment of God in the church. The doctrine of the primus usus legis according to the Lutheran sybolia writings -- The concept and its usefulness -- The theological justification for the doctrine -- Interest in the concept -- Definition -- Contents -- Its purpose -- Means of execution -- The proclaimer -- The healer -- The primus usus and the gospel -- Some deductions and questions -- Critique of the doctrine of usus in the Lutheran symbolic writings -- 'Personal' and 'real' ethos -- Personal or real ethos -- The New Testament -- The symbolic writings -- Some criticisms of Dilschneider's thesis -- Systematic consideration concerning the assertions which Christian ethics may make with regard to secular institutions -- State and church -- The concepts involved -- The basis of government -- In the nature of man -- In sin -- In Christ -- The divine character of government -- In its being -- In its task -- In its claim -- Government and the divine institutions in the world -- Government and church -- Government's claim on the church -- The church's claim on government -- The ecclesiastical responsibility of government -- The political responsibility of the church -- Conclusions -- The church and the form of the state -- On the possibility of the word of the church to the world -- What is meant by 'telling the truth?' -- Indexes -- Names -- Subjects -- Biblical references -- References to the Lutheran Symbolic Writings.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books TCM Library, Haus Edelweiss
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171.1 B714 1955 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 37412995168048
Books Books TCM Library, Haus Edelweiss
General Stacks
171.1 B714 1955 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34712995125648
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The love of God and the decay of the world --
The world of conflicts --
Shame --
Shame and conscience --
The world of recovered unity --
The Pharisee --
Proving --
Doing --
Love --
The church and the world --
The total and exclusive claim of Christ --
Christ and good people --
Ethics as formation --
The theoretical ethicist and reality --
Ecce Homo! --
The despiser of men --
The successful man --
The idolization of death --
Conformation --
The concrete place --
Inheritance and decay --
Guilt, Justification and renewal --
The confession of guilt --
Justification and the healing of the wound --
The last things and the things before the last --
Justification as the last word --
The penultimate --
The preparing of the way --
The natural --
Natural life --
Suum cuique --
The right to bodily life --
Suicide --
Reproduction and nascent life --
The freedom of bodily life --
The natural rights of the life of the mind. Christ, reality and good (Christ, the church and the world) --
The concept of reality --
Thinking in terms of two spheres --
The four mandates --
History and good --
Good and life --
The structure of responsible life --
Deputyship --
Correspondence with reality --
The world of things --
Pertinence --
Statecraft --
The acceptance of guilt --
Conscience --
Freedom --
The place of responsibility --
Vocation --
The 'ethical' and the 'Christian' as a theme --
The warrant for ethical discourse --
The commandment of God --
The concrete commandment and the divine mandates --
The concept of the mandate --
The commandment of God in the church. The doctrine of the primus usus legis according to the Lutheran sybolia writings --
The concept and its usefulness --
The theological justification for the doctrine --
Interest in the concept --
Definition --
Contents --
Its purpose --
Means of execution --
The proclaimer --
The healer --
The primus usus and the gospel --
Some deductions and questions --
Critique of the doctrine of usus in the Lutheran symbolic writings --
'Personal' and 'real' ethos --
Personal or real ethos --
The New Testament --
The symbolic writings --
Some criticisms of Dilschneider's thesis --
Systematic consideration concerning the assertions which Christian ethics may make with regard to secular institutions --
State and church --
The concepts involved --
The basis of government --
In the nature of man --
In sin --
In Christ --
The divine character of government --
In its being --
In its task --
In its claim --
Government and the divine institutions in the world --
Government and church --
Government's claim on the church --
The church's claim on government --
The ecclesiastical responsibility of government --
The political responsibility of the church --
Conclusions --
The church and the form of the state --
On the possibility of the word of the church to the world --
What is meant by 'telling the truth?' --
Indexes --
Names --
Subjects --
Biblical references --
References to the Lutheran Symbolic Writings.

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