Christian moral principles
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- Created on: 13-06-18 11:01
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- Christian moral principles
- Theonomous
- Governed purely by God's command
- Bible only source of authority
- Humans are sinful
- St Paul, Augustine, Calvin
- Therefore God needs to reveal
- Biblicists
- Bible is the revealed word of college
- Authors had divine intervention from God
- Bible is infallible
- Bible can't fail, but interpretations of it can
- 10 commandments, sermon n the mount
- How to live correctly
- 10 commandments, sermon n the mount
- Bible can't fail, but interpretations of it can
- Literalism is a bad idea
- Naive
- Karl barth believes it creates a false god
- Naive
- Bible is the revealed word of college
- Criticisms
- How do we correctly interpret the Bible?
- Heteronomous
- Authority found by several sources
- Church, Bible, Christians
- Bible is very important but the church leaders and theologians provide expert opinion
- Roman Catholics
- Ethics can be learnt naturally as well as revealed in the Bible
- Magisterium
- Pope
- Liberation theology
- 1960/70
- Preferential option for the poor
- Controversial
- Protestants
- Authority has grown organically
- Needs to be carry on being interpreted
- Sermon on the mount
- Addresses the entire Christian community
- Roman Catholics
- Criticisms
- What sources are legitimate?
- Who has the most authority?
- What sources are legitimate?
- Authority found by several sources
- Autonomous
- Self governed ethics
- There are no separate ethics
- Bible is 'a set of 'good advice'
- agape
- Fletcher, situation ethics
- Protestant
- Christian self sacrificing love
- If you always do the loving thing you will get good results
- Fletcher, situation ethics
- Catholic view
- agape
- Hans Kung
- No difference between a Christian and a person of good will, when it comes to decisions
- Global ethic
- Everyone follows a loving approach
- Criticised of undermining the magisterium
- Everyone follows a loving approach
- Hans Kung
- agape
- Criticism
- Is love sufficient?
- Christian ethics can't be reduced to just love
- Theonomous
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