Christology and Ethics
Title | Christology and Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | F. LeRon Shults |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | 233 |
Release | 2010-06-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0802845096 |
This book brings together leading theologians and ethicists to explore the neglected relationship between Christology and ethics. The contributors to this volume work to overcome the tendency toward disciplinary xenophobia, considering such questions as What is the relation between faithful teaching about the reality of Christ and teaching faithfulness to the way of Christ? and How is christological doctrine related to theological judgments about normative human agency? With renewed attention and creative reformulation, they argue, we can discover fresh ways of tending to these perennial questions.
Global Justice, Christology and Christian Ethics
Title | Global Justice, Christology and Christian Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Sowle Cahill |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 327 |
Release | 2013-01-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1139620223 |
Global realities of human inequality, poverty, violence and ecological destruction call for a twenty-first-century Christian response which links cross-cultural and interreligious cooperation for change to the Gospel. This book demonstrates why just action is necessarily a criterion of authentic Christian theology, and gives grounds for Christian hope that change in violent structures is really possible. Lisa Sowle Cahill argues that theology and biblical interpretation are already embedded in and indebted to ethical-political practices and choices. Within this ecumenical study, she explores the use of the historical Jesus in constructive theology; the merits of Word and Spirit Christologies; the importance of liberation and feminist theologies as well as theologies from the global south; and also the possibility of qualified moral universalism. The book will be of great interest to all students of theology, religious ethics and politics, and biblical studies.
Ethics in the Presence of Christ
Title | Ethics in the Presence of Christ PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher R. J. Holmes |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 2011-12-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567432327 |
By casting the identity of Christ as the One-Who-Is-Present, Holmes concentrates on how Christ ministers his power, truth, and love in the Spirit for the sake of the transformation of human life. As present, Christ's work is both finished and unfinished, complete and open-ended; as endlessly contemporary, it is constitutive of reality and so (re-)shapes the ethical landscape and the moral life. In revisiting the doctrine of Christ's contemporaneity with its ethical implications firmly in view, Holmes's work fills a lacuna in the contemporary literature on Christian ethics. In conversation with John's Gospel, the priority of Christology comes to drive the very shape of moral questions for today. Here the compelling task of ethics is a matter of becoming aligned with and transparent to Christ's own presence and so to Christ's work of making all things new.
The Relation of Christology to Ethics in the First Epistle of John
Title | The Relation of Christology to Ethics in the First Epistle of John PDF eBook |
Author | Garrett C. Kenney |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 80 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Religion |
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The First Epistle of John has long been noted for its consistent interchange of Christology and ethics. Kenney's study of this phenomenon is illuminated by an analysis of the historical situation and by a detailed exegesis of the text. The Epistle is best understood as a corrective to the docetic tendencies, both Christological and ethical, of the Gospel of John. It seems to have been written by someone other than the author of the Gospel, yet faithful to his formulations of truth. The Epistle teaches that Christology determines ethics. Those who deny the expiatory death of Jesus are deprived of true spiritual life. Those who affirm this teaching are gifted with regeneration and empowered to grow in the imitation of Christ. The love of God first manifested in Christ is finally fulfilled in one's ethical transformation.
Fully Human in Christ
Title | Fully Human in Christ PDF eBook |
Author | Todd H. Speidell |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | 168 |
Release | 2016-11-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1498296386 |
Thomas F. Torrance's theology included a thoroughgoing, albeit implicit, ethic of reconciliation. It focused on the personalizing and humanizing mediation of Christ in all realms of life--including not only a supposed private dimension of human life but also the social, historical, and political structures of human society and even of the cosmos itself. This book builds upon that vision of a Christian ethic radically rooted in God's grace, which encompasses, sustains, and transforms the entire human and created order. A trinitarian-incarnational social ethic does not begin with our human causes, projects, and agendas, however noble they might be, but with witness to the reconciling person and work of Jesus Christ for us.
Jesus, Liberation, and the Biblical Jubilee
Title | Jesus, Liberation, and the Biblical Jubilee PDF eBook |
Author | Sharon H. Ringe |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | 143 |
Release | 2004-06-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1592447139 |
Sharon H. Ringe, beginning with this Lukan text, addresses the Jubilee images and traditions in the Synoptic Gospels, especially in Jesus' proclamation of the reign of God. She illuminates how the Jubilee traditions served as a source for early Christian ethics and Christology: to confess Jesus as the Christ - herald of the Jubilee, messenger, and enactor of liberation - is to participate in acts of liberation. Ringe concludes that the agenda of liberation constitutes the very core of both the gospel message and biblical faith: the word of God fulfilled in the presence of Jesus of Nazareth is alive with images of liberation. In the final chapter, In Christ We Are Set Free, she explores further the implications of her findings for contemporary ethical and christological reflection.
An Introduction to Christian Ethics
Title | An Introduction to Christian Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Alberto de Mingo Kaminouchi |
Publisher | Liturgical Press |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2020-10-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0814688128 |
2021 Catholic Media Association Award first place award in morality, ethics, christology, mariology, and redemption What does it mean to live and build up the Kingdom of God? In this book, professor and priest Alberto de Mingo Kaminouchi introduces the contemporary reader to Christian ethics by examining the New Testament through the three key concepts of Aristotle’s ethics: happiness, virtue, and love. In turn, the three affirmations orient this reflection through the Gospel. First, when the triune God appears on the horizon, it becomes easier to understand that existence has a purpose: namely, participating with the entire human family in this project of happiness called the Kingdom of God. Second, happiness is not something outside of us; it consists in the practice of the virtues that bring about a personal transformation. Third, the project of the Kingdom leads us to live in love with others. De Mingo Kaminouchi shows the reader a real model of this in the community we call the church, the “field hospital” for all those in need of hope. This book is accessibly written for readers not already well-versed in Christian ethics.