Christian Moral Principles Essays Flashcards
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Autonomous ethics are the most successful
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christian ethics should come from the bible, the church, or any external source. the only guiding moral principle should be love.which s
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Not successful
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based on the fact that jesus teachings are based on love - however there is more to them than love.
if love can determine all moral actions then christian ethics is reduced to secular ethics and gods will becomes little more than religious authpority
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it is the basis of his teaching
- jesus argued that we should love our enemies
jesus states that th eonly command he has towards each other as he had towards humanity is that they act with the same love towards each other as he had towards them. ‘This is my commandment :love one another’
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theonomous are more successful
humans are incapable of living good lives based on their own powers of reason as sinful and ignorant , so we need gods revelation.
also rpovides us with instructiond on how to live our life - which love does not do because it is too vague
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theonomous not good because Bible goes out of date also leads to bibliotary. Joseph Fletcher - SE - we should aim to make the most loving decision possible. Agape should be the motivating factor behind everyhting
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weakness of joseph fletcher- we cannot solely focus on love as we have a tendecy towards selfishness and to be clean, fixed rules.
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Theonomous ethics are the most successful
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successful
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Theonomous = ethics which are governed by God’s law or commands
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Karl Barth, Augustine, St Paul.
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Bible = very important because its word of God and a sacred source.
constant and doesnt change
Provides us with role models such as Jesus and Paul. - ten commandments which we all agree withcou
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Karl Barth - still gave high value to scripture but said literalism could be dangerous as it gives the Bible divine status which can only be given to God - bibliotary.
Liberals - Bible is inspired by God and not actually the WOG - takes importance away
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Bible is the word of god - ‘Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me’ I have put my words in your mouth’
Writers of Bible shouldnt be seen as authors , but rather scribes or translators to what God has commanded or told.
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We need explicit moral guidelines because St Paul and Augustine believed humans by very nature are sinful and ignorant.
We should look for instructions on how to live.
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Difficult because there is contradictions in the Bible.
OLD TESETMANET - War and restorative justice. ‘An eye for an eye’
NEW TESETAMENT - Love of enemies ‘ But i tell you , love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you’
Also could be out of date and doesn’t reflect society today
Things such as Autonomous ethics are better - the only moral guiding principle is love - LOVE is the root of all Jesus’ teaching
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Autonomous is also not good because theres more to Jesus teaching than just love therefore too simplistic
ALSO- humans are incapable to living good lives based on their own powers of reason as were sinful and ignorant so need God’s revelation
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Heteronomous ethics are the most successful
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they are successful
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Heteronomus - christina ethics should combine both biblical and church teachings with human reason.
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catholic church , aquinas
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it allows for wisdom of experinced and well read people e.g. pope
talk about magisterium
catholic chruch also gets its teaching from natural law and liberation theology.
AQUINAS -NATURAL LAW - humans are set apart from other animals because of our ability to use human reason
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how deos someoe rank sources of authortiy
hpw does someone decide if a soruce is legitimate or not
bible is more important than other sources - WOG - could cause conflict
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we need diff teaching to the bible because humans are sinful so the chirch acts as a guide
catholic church goves sacred tradition equivalent authprity to the bible
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it uses reason - AQUINAS - any deciion mking requires the operation of reason. Need to make sense of experience and respond to it.
define natural law
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theonomous is better
bible is constant - doesnt change
we need explicit moral guidelines because st paul and augustine (concupisence) believed humans by very nature are sinful and ignorant.
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karl barth - it leads to bibliotary
reason - bridge between the wordd of the bible and ones present dya ethical dilemmas and circumstances
