Biblical Christian Ethics
Overview
After examining what Scripture teaches about the goal and motive of the Christian life, the author addresses moral dilemmas, human-life issues, sexuality, economic justice, and truthfulness.
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“Thus, by way of summary, Christian ethics is the study of the way of life that conforms to the will of God as revealed in Christ and the holy Scriptures and illuminated by the Holy Spirit. It seeks to answer the practical question, What is God calling us, his redeemed people, to be and to do? Expressed in term of goals, persons, and practices, a threefold answer may be proposed: The controlling purpose of the Christian life is the glory of God; the impelling motive of the Christian life is love for God; and the directing principle of the Christian life is the will of God as revealed in Christ and the holy Scriptures.8 These basic propositions will be the subject of the next three chapters.” (Page 16)
“‘The good.’ The prophet Amos long ago called for adherence to what in philosophical discussion is referred to as the first principle of practical reason: ‘Seek good, not evil … hate evil, love good’ (Amos 5:14–15; cf. Rom. 12:9, which is practically identical, and Rom. 16:19, ‘I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil’). ‘Good’ is the most comprehensive term for what human beings ought to be and to do. The biblical ethic is distinctive in that it identifies the good with the revealed will of God.” (Page 13)
“In Fletcher’s view there is only one biblical absolute, the law of love.” (Page 127)
“Aristotle, for example, taught that the end or goal (telos) of human existence is eudaimonia, traditionally translated ‘happiness’ but now commonly rendered ‘flourishing’ in an attempt to express in one word Aristotle’s complex notion of being good and faring well.” (Page 17)
- Title: Biblical Christian Ethics
- Author: David Clyde Jones
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 1994
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Christian ethics › Reformed authors
- ISBNs: 9781441222725, 0801052289, 9780801052286, 1441222723
- Resource ID: LLS:BBLCLCHRSTNTHCS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:05:09Z