Sentences with phrase «biblical ethics»

The «biblical ethic for today,» therefore, will not be readily apparent until one examines the present situation in order to see which course of action the biblical values seem to encourage now.

If only there were such an abundance of careful studies on biblical ethics, we would find ourselves in the luxurious position of highlighting the helpful approaches, discarding those which are problematic, and generally drawing together the «assured results» of scholarship.

@ Peter: for the first 3 centuries of Christianity, Christians could not have imagined being able to «vote» for the Emperor, much less that his beliefs would even remotely reflect biblical ethics.

Biblical ethics do not sort neatly into «conservative» and «progressive» circles, even less so among Canadian Christians than our American counterparts.

In such a system, human authorities replace the Divine, thus reversing the direction of a truly biblical ethic, which always begins with God, who makes a moral claim on his people in the light of his transcendent reign.

If only there were such an abundance of careful studies on biblical ethics, we would find ourselves in the luxurious position of highlighting the helpful approaches, discarding...

The accent in appropriation should perhaps fall much more on the fundamental values in biblical ethics than on the specific moral norms and directives that we meet on the surface level of the text.

McKenna's conclusion is that Singer's way of thinking is to be expected from one who has abandoned the biblical ethic.

With respect to our society, and Western Civilization more generally, he is entirely right in accenting the biblical ethic.

Or will those churches now complete their sectarian withdrawal from the arena of public debate as their theologians and activists go on speaking to themselves as though they were living 350 years ago and economics were just a branch of biblical ethics?

I think the monasticism reference is in regards to the link below the cartoon, in which Bill Hybels iterates a biblical ethic that endorses sex between married men and women, and abstinence for everyone else.

p.s.a full systematic view of my view of biblical ethics and the christian tradition would require a face - to - face or a completely separate post on these ethics.

When one considers how often people invoke biblical teachings in matters of morality, it seems that biblical ethics would be an inviting terrain for scholars to explore.

That I survived that first stumbling attempt to put together an overall approach to biblical ethics — indeed to experiment with whether there could be said to exist such a discipline — I owe to the goodwill of those first students.

From within this perspective, it seems to me that Gilbert Meilaender's biblical ethics («Still Waiting for Benedict,» October 1999) is closer to the thought of Thomas Aquinas than is Alasdair MacIntyre's «Thomistic» Aristotelianism.

As the middle class continues to slide toward underclass levels of illegitimacy and family dysfunction, the fundamental egalitarianism of the biblical ethic of sex, marriage, and family will become evident.

When it comes to the biblical ethic behind the coming advancements into the AR revolution, Cameron sees two competing philosophies — each with different spiritual implications.

The key to Webb's approach is the idea that when one looks at the broader biblical culture (Ancient Near East, Greco - Roman) and compares it to the biblical ethic, one can detect significant progress in the direction of the so - called «ultimate ethic.»

As you can tell by the title, the theme of the book is discovering love as the biblical ethic for mission and is taken from 2 Corinthians 5.

Did ancient culture impact the biblical ethics of slavery but not that of women?