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Christian ethics in secular society /Philip Edgcumbe Hughes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Book House, (c)1983.Description: 223 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780801042676
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Contents:
Christian ethics and secular ethics -- The ethical implications of Christian theology -- The human situation -- Chapter 2. Conscience -- God's Vicar -- Conscience and the fall of man -- The divine will -- The weak and the strong conscience -- The moral argument of Immanuel Kant -- The moral argument of C. S. Lewis -- Chapter 3. Law and love -- Law and the conscience -- Love unopposed to law -- Merit and reward -- Unevangelical developments -- Casuistry -- Chapter 4. The new morality -- Anthropological ethics -- Situational ethics -- Utilitarianism -- Chapter 5. The new confessional -- Freudian Psychoanalysis -- Jung and psychotherapy -- Chapter 6. The ethics of humanism -- Man for himself -- Humanistic religion -- Transactional analysis -- Behaviorism -- Sociobiology -- The cult of selfism -- Crime and punishment -- Capital punishment --
Technology and modern maladies -- Death control -- Platutopiaspian state -- Programs for the control of behavior -- Mind over matter -- The Christian perspective -- Chapter 8. Sexual ethics -- Sexuality and the image of God -- The scope and purpose of sexuality -- The structure of the family -- Divorce -- Celibacy -- The breakup of the family -- Homosexuality -- Abortion -- Chastity -- Chapter 9. The Christian and the state -- The origin of civil government -- The Christian in a pagan state -- The atheistic state -- The Christian and warfare -- The just war -- Conscientious objection -- The international Christian -- Selected bibliography -- Index of authors and subjects -- Index of scriptural references.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction BJ1251.H894.C475 1983 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923000569570

"A Canterbury book."--Jacket.

Chapter 1. Knowing and doing -- Christian ethics and secular ethics -- The ethical implications of Christian theology -- The human situation -- Chapter 2. Conscience -- God's Vicar -- Conscience and the fall of man -- The divine will -- The weak and the strong conscience -- The moral argument of Immanuel Kant -- The moral argument of C. S. Lewis -- Chapter 3. Law and love -- Law and the conscience -- Love unopposed to law -- Merit and reward -- Unevangelical developments -- Casuistry -- Chapter 4. The new morality -- Anthropological ethics -- Situational ethics -- Utilitarianism -- Chapter 5. The new confessional -- Freudian Psychoanalysis -- Jung and psychotherapy -- Chapter 6. The ethics of humanism -- Man for himself -- Humanistic religion -- Transactional analysis -- Behaviorism -- Sociobiology -- The cult of selfism -- Crime and punishment -- Capital punishment --

Chapter 7. Eugenic utopianism -- Technology and modern maladies -- Death control -- Platutopiaspian state -- Programs for the control of behavior -- Mind over matter -- The Christian perspective -- Chapter 8. Sexual ethics -- Sexuality and the image of God -- The scope and purpose of sexuality -- The structure of the family -- Divorce -- Celibacy -- The breakup of the family -- Homosexuality -- Abortion -- Chastity -- Chapter 9. The Christian and the state -- The origin of civil government -- The Christian in a pagan state -- The atheistic state -- The Christian and warfare -- The just war -- Conscientious objection -- The international Christian -- Selected bibliography -- Index of authors and subjects -- Index of scriptural references.

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