English

Ethics and atonement

xi, 302 pages 23 cm · Includes bibliographical references and index · I. Ethics in the Bible -- Religion in the Bible not opposed to morality -- Morality in the New Testament as self-renunciation -- Its foundation in the covenant -- The covenant both an agreement and a gift -- Hence, the importance of the three "theological" virtues -- Righteousness fulfilled in love, in the sphere of the family -- II. Ethics outside the Bible -- Divorce between ethics and religion in ethical writings -- Non-religious character of ethics in Greece and Rome -- Neglect of ethics by Christian thinkers -- General course of ethical thought after the Reformation -- The "impasse" in modern ethics, and the way out -- III. Duties and persons -- Duty, pleasure, and self-realization -- The isolated individual non-existent -- Duty and the personal bond of union -- The personal bond in the New Testament -- The importance of the personal bond implied by sociology and by the intuitional and aesthetic views of ethics -- The personal bond and casuistry -- The personal bond and the unity of virtue -- IV. Reconciliation -- Need of further consideration of personality -- Sin as the breaking of the right relation betwe

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