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Author Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945.

Title Ethics / Dietrich Bonhoeffer ; edited by Eberhard Bethge ; translated by Neville Horton Smith.

Publication Info. New York : Macmillan, 1955.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  193 B714E    Check Shelf
Description xii, 340 pages ; 22 cm.
Series The Library of philosophy and theology
Library of philosophy and theology.
Note Includes index.
Contents The love of God and the decay of the world -- The world of conflicts -- Shame -- Shame and conscience -- The world of recovered unity -- The Pharisee -- Proving -- Doing -- Love -- The church and the world -- The total and exclusive claim of Christ -- Christ and good people -- Ethics as formation -- The theoretical ethicist and reality -- Ecce Homo! -- The despiser of men -- The successful man -- The idolization of death -- Conformation -- The concrete place -- Inheritance and decay -- Guilt, Justification and renewal -- The confession of guilt -- Justification and the healing of the wound -- The last things and the things before the last -- Justification as the last word -- The penultimate -- The preparing of the way -- The natural -- Natural life -- Suum cuique -- The right to bodily life -- Suicide -- Reproduction and nascent life -- The freedom of bodily life -- The natural rights of the life of the mind --
Christ, reality and good (Christ, the church and the world) -- The concept of reality -- Thinking in terms of two spheres -- The four mandates -- History and good -- Good and life -- The structure of responsible life -- Deputyship -- Correspondence with reality -- The world of things - Pertinence - Statecraft -- The acceptance of guilt -- Conscience -- Freedom -- The place of responsibility -- Vocation -- The 'ethical' and the 'Christian' as a theme -- The warrant for ethical discourse -- The commandment of God -- The concrete commandment and the divine mandates -- The concept of the mandate -- The commandment of God in the church --
The doctrine of the primus usus legis according to the Lutheran sybolia writings -- The concept and its usefulness -- The theological justification for the doctrine -- Interest in the concept -- Definition -- Contents -- Its purpose -- Means of execution -- The proclaimer -- The healer -- The primus usus and the gospel -- Some deductions and questions -- Critique of the doctrine of usus in the Lutheran symbolic writings -- 'Personal' and 'real' ethos -- Personal or real ethos -- The New Testament -- The symbolic writings -- Some criticisms of Dilschneider's thesis -- Systematic consideration concerning the assertions which Christian ethics may make with regard to secular institutions -- State and church -- The concepts involved -- The basis of government -- In the nature of man -- In sin -- In Christ -- The divine character of government -- In its being -- In its task -- In its claim -- Government and the divine institutions in the world -- Government and church -- Government's claim on the church -- The church's claim on government -- The ecclesiastical responsibility of government -- The political responsibility of the church -- Conclusions -- The church and the form of the state -- On the possibility of the word of the church to the world -- What is meant by 'telling the truth?' -- Indexes -- Names -- Subjects -- Biblical references -- References to the Lutheran Symbolic Writings.
Subject Christian ethics.
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