The Bible and Morality: Biblical Roots of Christian Conduct
Overview
The Pontifical Biblical Commission has defended the authority and interpretation of the Holy Bible for over 100 years, convening to study, analyze, and discuss the interpretation of Scripture in the modern world, or to evaluate a potentially controversial interpretation or pronouncement on Scripture. Having fulfillment in our life is a desire rooted in the human heart. Our behavior is a testament to this desire—but while it can agree with that of others, often is clashes. For Christians, the Bible is an indispensible reference for moral norms, which guide our behavior away from traumatic clashes and into peaceful accord. But Scripture is nearly 1900 years old. How can its moral norms—which belong to distant cultures whose life conditions were very different than today’s—be relevant now? The Bible and Morality sets out to establish a method of analyzing the Bible’s standards of morality it sets forth.
Top Highlights
“Moral instruction certainly forms part of the Church’s essential mission, but only secondarily, i.e. in relation to our appreciation of the gift of God and of a spiritual experience. This is something which our contemporaries often find it difficult to understand and adequately appreciate.” (source)
“This carries important implications for Christian morality. The future reality of the kingdom invades (and determines) the present situation.” (source)
“situate Christian morality within the larger sphere of anthropology and of biblical theologies” (source)
“It is God, who, in a ‘creatio continua’ imparts vitality and keeps them in existence” (source)
“the Bible does provide some methodological criteria for progress along this road.” (source)
- Title: The Bible and Morality: Biblical Roots of Christian Conduct
- Author: Pontifical Biblical Commission
- Publisher: Libreria Editrice Vaticana
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Ethics in the Bible; Christian ethics; Conduct of life
- Resource ID: LLS:BBLMRLTYBBLCLRT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:11:19Z