Sentences with phrase «gospel ethic of love»

These, the authors proposed, are marks of a gospel ethic of love (Anthony Kosnick et al., Human Sexuality: New Directions in American Catholic Thought [Paulist / Newman, 1977]-RRB-.

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In Canada, evangelical pastors have been assessed heavy monetary fines for preaching the Gospel truth about the ethics of love and marriage.

Lutheran ethics, following certain tendencies in Luther's own thought but neglecting his main intention, conceived the social orders outside the Church as necessary bulwarks against sin, but obeying principles of a different order from the demands of the Gospel of love.

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.

As an ethicist he moved from the imperatives of the gospel ethic of sacrificial love to the requirements of ambiguous situations, always under the mediation of the principles of justice — freedom, equality and order.

The motivation here is far from the love of the Gospel, yet the goods to be won through involvement in the stuff of history are genuine goods which must be affirmed in a Christian ethic.

These theses of the socially powerless Jesus, the compromise of the gospel ethic with world and other systems of thought, the centrality of the love commandments, the need for a viable social ethic utilizing social philosophies, and the understanding by all this in relationship to the history of social philosophies had a forceful impact upon both H. Richard Niebuhr and his older brother Reinhold Niebuhr.