Bible and Ethics in the Christian LifeAmong the topics treated are: Christian ethics as community ethics Charting the moral life Elements of character formation Character and social structure Decision making The nature and role of biblical authority Uses of Scripture in Christian ethics |
Contents
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Charting the Moral Life | 35 |
The Elements of Character Formation | 66 |
Character Formation and Social Structure | 85 |
Decision Making | 100 |
The Church and the Moral Life | 120 |
The Nature and Role of Biblical Authority | 141 |
Making Biblical Resources Available | 159 |
Summary and Challenge | 189 |
Notes | 203 |
Bibliography | 228 |
Index of Biblical References | 238 |
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Page 178 - I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.
Page 165 - He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Page 177 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 123 - Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
Page 217 - Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Page 56 - You shall not kill. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Page 178 - Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.
Page 70 - Divine Master; grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love...
Page 178 - For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in the land.
Page 135 - Every perspective on economic life that is human, moral, and Christian must be shaped by three questions: What does the economy do for people? What does it do to people? And how do people participate in it?