Sentences with phrase «testament ethic of love»

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Jesus condenses the Old Testament prophetic ethic (quoting from Deuteronomy and Leviticus) when he declares that «all the law and the prophets» depend upon love of God and love of neighbor (Matt.

For example, it is the opinion of not a few biblical scholars that the love commandments in the Fourth Gospel and the epistles of John, so often quoted to stress the universality of the Christian ethic, were originally understood as applying only within the Christian community, and as in the Old Testament «Love your neighbor» meant «Love your fellow Israelite,» so the corresponding «new commandment» was taken to mean, «Love your fellow Christlove commandments in the Fourth Gospel and the epistles of John, so often quoted to stress the universality of the Christian ethic, were originally understood as applying only within the Christian community, and as in the Old Testament «Love your neighbor» meant «Love your fellow Israelite,» so the corresponding «new commandment» was taken to mean, «Love your fellow ChristLove your neighbor» meant «Love your fellow Israelite,» so the corresponding «new commandment» was taken to mean, «Love your fellow ChristLove your fellow Israelite,» so the corresponding «new commandment» was taken to mean, «Love your fellow ChristLove your fellow Christian.

Since the nineteenth century, the sexual ethics of «the family pew» have been conceptualized in Old Testament terms without much reference to modifications introduced by Jesus» law of love.

Thus the ethic of the New Testament is properly described as «disinterested love,» that is, love that is not calculating.

It can not be too strongly stressed, in contrast to a secular moralism which finds its base in social adjustment, or a balancing of human values, or a natural law of morality, that the center of New Testament ethics lies in the love requirement which in turn stems from the free gift of God's love to the undeserving.

Likewise in the Greco - Roman world the pure ethic of love faced a desperate trial, and the marvel is not that the New Testament contains contradictions and qualifications of it, but that such elevated and triumphant faith in it was voiced at all and has remained to chasten and guide the conscience of the world.

The unique position which the ethic of love holds in the New Testament is made plain by the very contradictions of it that occur.

Nevertheless, there is no mistaking the clear emergence of the ethic of love as the dominant and unique principle of conduct in the ideals of the New Testament.

Nevertheless, there is no mistaking the conscious conflict in the morals of the New Testament between the ethic of love on one side and bloody violence on the other.

Jesus, among others, condensed the Old Testament prophetic ethic (quoting from Deuteronomy and Leviticus) when he declared that «all the law and the prophets» depend upon love of God and love of neighbor (Matt.22: 35 - 40; cf. Mark 12:28 - 31).