Sentences with phrase «ethical teaching of»

Of course the approach of the western Christian mission and national churches have changed their attitude in this respect, though they would make a distinction between the centrality of the person of Christ and a general devotion to the ethical teaching of Christ in saving faith.

Far more important than any particular ethical teaching of Luther is this fundamental ethical movement.

We begin at this point because we are seeking to move inward from the periphery to the centre — that is, we begin with the attempt to understand the ethical teaching of Jesus as it appears within the framework of the thought of his contemporaries.

(The Ethical Teaching of Jesus, pp. 84 - 85.)

Nevertheless, taken as a whole, the ethical teaching of Jesus leaves an impression which nothing in Judaism does.

As passionately as I believe in social justice and nonviolence, I must still insist vigorously that we have everything confused if we suppose that the ethical teaching of Jesus is the essence of Christian faith.

Sometimes lists of such vices are inserted, lists which can be shown to have been drawn from popular ethical teaching of the period, quite outside Christianity.

When we have recognized the fact that in general structure the catechesis of early Christianity followed the lines of other ethical teaching of the time, we shall be better prepared to recognize the points at which specifically Christian motives and sanctions are introduced.

To talk about the «ethical teaching of Jesus» is to talk about something that can only be found by a process of abstraction and deduction from the teaching as a whole.

It is only when his ethics is separated from the ethical teaching of Judaism — which he deepened and spiritualized — and is then given a purely apocalyptic setting, that it can be described as «interim ethics.»

In one aspect they are addressed to all and sundry, laying down the lines of an absolute ethic determined by the coming of the kingdom of God; but insofar as individuals accept them as such, and commit themselves, the new Israel is being formed, and the ethical teaching of Jesus becomes the new law by which it is to be governed.

Love of God; love of neighbor: an important part of the ethical teaching of Jesus can be brought under these twin heads, and this has often been done by Christian moralists.

Verses 18 - 19 are a rather unimaginative interpretation of the first half of verse 15, perhaps reflecting the ethical teaching of the early church.

It would however be misleading to suggest that the ethical teaching of the New Testament is sufficiently represented by some such very general proposition (as if it were enough to say «Love, and do as you like»).

The propensity of scholars (and Christians more generally) to confine the ethical teaching of Jesus to his words has been shown to be a misunderstanding of the genre; the contrasting actions of Jesus are just as important.

And being good meant trying to live in accord with the ethical teaching of scripture, whether that was understood as a narrow and highly specific code of righteousness, or more generally as following important principles such as the golden rule, loving your neighbor as yourself, and so forth.

Professor Bultmann agreed with Dr. Albert Schweitzer (cf.. The Quest of the Historical Jesus) that eschatology was an essential part of the teaching of Jesus, but he differed from Dr. Schweitzer in his conviction that the ethical teaching of Jesus is inseparable from his eschatology: both are based on the certainty that man is not sufficient unto himself but is under the sovereignty of God.

It is not difficult to summarize with a fair degree of conciseness the principal ethical teachings of Jesus.

But as we listen to the ethical teachings of Jesus, all such pretenses are swept away.

The most important thing about the religious and ethical teachings of Jesus is not that he taught them but that he thought them.

Jesus» ethics are set forth as the conditions of entrance into the coming kingdom, but in reality there is only one condition — complete obedience to the will of God.23 Both the radical ethical teachings of Jesus and his proclamation of the kingdom find their unity in the crisis of decision before God.

There is a tendency in some quarters today to put the stress so completely on God's redemptive act in Christ as to underestimate the ethical teachings of Jesus.

John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), educated according to Bentham's counsel, believed in God, supported the ethical teachings of Jesus, but disavowed supernatural support for them.

An intense individualist and having no use for monks or scholasticism, reluctantly a priest, he was sincerely Christian and wished to see the Church purged of superstition and to return to the ethical teachings of Christ.

There is no requirement to believe in a god in order to believe that the core moral and ethical teachings of Jesus are good models to follow.

The most notable example of such grouping is the so - called Sermon on the Mount, where within the compass of three chapters, is brought together what are generally regarded as the major ethical teachings of Jesus.

Not exact matches

He teaches at the Ted Rogers School of Management, at Ryerson University in Toronto, where he is Director of the Jim Pattison Ethical Leadership Education & Research Program, at the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre.

CasePlace.org was a curated library of teaching resources designed primarily for business school faculty to help them incorporate environmental, social and ethical topics into their teaching.

But rather than incentivize teaching innovation that would allow science educators to discuss religion and ethics --- for example, creationism in light of evolution and vice versa, or the scientific and ethical implications of stem cells and in vitro fertilization — many teachers are afraid to even mention these issues, despite their importance, for fear of losing their jobs.

This approach violates the first rule of good teaching: Integrate the information into your students» lives and worldviews, including those based in religion or ethical systems, and translate it into something they can connect with and use.

Jesus never taught that it was ethical to use the police power of government to force people to do things.

he taught in an underground seminary, worked with associates in the intelligence services for the overthrow of Hitler, helped Jews get out of the country, and kept up a steady correspondence with friends on questions spiritual, theological, and ethical.

The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for... doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial rules,» believe that «doctrine... is a closed system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain rules,» have «an answer for every question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others» lives,» «long for a monolithic body of doctrine guarded by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God... simply by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»

A Catechism for Business: Tough Ethical Questions and Insights from Catholic Teaching, edited by Andrew V. Abela and Joseph E. Capizzi (Catholic University of America Press): Catholic social teaching remains a mystery to many Catholics (and an ideological plaything for Teaching, edited by Andrew V. Abela and Joseph E. Capizzi (Catholic University of America Press): Catholic social teaching remains a mystery to many Catholics (and an ideological plaything for teaching remains a mystery to many Catholics (and an ideological plaything for others).

But it may be even more unnerving for some to find that the concept of a Supreme Being apparently does not play a central role in his religious philosophy, at least not in his ethical teachings.

There are no ethical absolutes for us in the Law or in the teaching of Christ and the apostles, and there is no natural law, at least not one about which any reliable conclusions can be drawn.

One part of Protestantism fragmented and hardened into a series of contradictory biblicistic positions; the other continued to meander beyond the limits of Scripture and tradition and, uncontrolled by any legitimately established teaching authority, to become a dogmatic and ethical free - for - all.

Those who hear Jesus» teachings are struck, some quite deeply, by the level of ethical conduct expected of his followers.

Yet you apparently won't even examine the moral / ethical implications of your beliefs, which are I might add, contrary to much scriptural teaching.

Nor do we hold that an accurate reconstruction of Jesus» teaching can produce an ethical or theological system establishing the validity of Christianity.

Given these happy parallels between Jesus» teachings and our best modern sensitivities and insights, why is it that a careful reading of Jesus ethical instructions does not leave us feeling justified?

We can therefore characterize the Christian ethical outlook without attempting the perhaps impossible task of reconstructing the precise teaching of Jesus.

Prior to that time most ethical teaching assumed that the amount of wealth available in a community was more or less fixed.

What was left was the «pure» Christianity of the merely human Jesus and his ethical teachings - in other words, liberal modernism.

In the final analysis, the churches» ability to teach the ethic of eco-justice to the public depends on the assessment we make of the religious and ethical significance of our public traditions — in particular, the civic tradition of participatory democracy.

(It is because of specific difficulty attached to learning how to use the moral expressions of a language that we find novels more helpful than explicit ethical reflection in teaching us how to live morally.)

He does not view it in terms of an ethical community, as does much of 19th - century theology, but in accordance with the exe2etical discoveries of the 20th century, which find the source of this term in the apocalyptic movement and the teachings of Jesus.

In the fourth chapter of Man's Vision of God — «God and Righteousness» — Hartshorne teaches us how neoclassical theology illuminates ethics in a way that is socially critical and intellectually honest, that is, in a way that is adequate to both ethical and metaphysical criteria.

c) Those opposed to WW2 fell into one of three major groups: * The communists, which remained opposed until Hitler invaded Russia; * The isolationists, that believed that non-interference was the only ethical foreign policy; * The Christians, that believed that all war was immoral, unethical, unjust, and contrary to what Scripture teaches.

In his earlier address to the bishops, Benedict urged «a clear and united witness» on public questions of great moral moment, recognizing that «it can not be assumed that all Catholic citizens think in harmony with the Church's teaching on today's key ethical questions.»