Sentences with phrase «pure ethic of love»
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.
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The long prophetic lineage that urged a return to the pure ethic of the law of God, would produce a humane society and proper love for God and neighbor (Matt.
«17 Now one may find something less than the pure spirit of love here but there is also disclosed a valuable element in human nature which a Christian ethic ought to respect and enlist, not relegate to a place wholly outside the Kingdom.
One group believed that the spirit of love is itself a pure and unique method for dealing with all evil; hence the Christian ethic is one which expresses this spirit persuasively, intelligently, in all situations, and withdraws from all methods and means which resort to something which is other than the spirit of love.
On the growing churches fell such difficult days, full of hardship and persecution, that the ethic of love in its pure form proved impracticable.