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| Resource: |
Book (B3810) Ethics
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| Author: |
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich |
| Publisher: |
MacMillan Company, 1965 |
| Length: |
382 pages |
| Subjects: |
Theology |
| Location: |
computer room |
| # Copies: |
1 |
| Description: |
The Christian does not live in a vacuum, says the author, but in a world of government, politics, labor, and marriage. Hence, Christian ethics cannot exist in a vacuum; what the Christian needs is concrete instruction in a concrete situation. This is Dietrich Bonhoeffer's claim in this book. Although the author died before completing his work, the book is recognized as a major contribution to Christian ethics. The root and ground of Christian ethics, the author says, is the reality of God as revealed in Jesus Christ. This reality is not manifest in the Church as distinct from the secular world; such a juxtaposition of two separate spheres, Bonhoeffer insists, is a denial of God's having reconciled the whole world to himself in Christ. On the contrary, God's commandment is to be found and known in the Church, the family, labor, and government. His commandment is his permission to live as man before God, in a world he made, and with responsibility for the institutions of that world. |
| Age Groups: |
High School; Young Adult; Adult (30-55); Adult (55+)
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