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100 1 $aThielicke, Helmut,$d1908-1986.
240 10 $aTheologische Ethik.$lEnglish
245 10 $aTheological ethics /$cby Helmut Thielicke ; edited by William H. Lazareth.
264 1 $aPhiladelphia :$bFortress Press,$c[1966-1969]
300 $a2 volumes ;$c24 cm
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500 $a"An abridgment and translation of Theologische Ethik."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $av. 1 Foundations -- v. 2 Politics.
505 0 $aVOLUME 1 : Editor's foreword -- Preface to the English edition -- Preface to the first German edition -- Abbreviations -- PART ONE: CHRISTIAN ETHICS IN THE AGE OF SECULARISM -- 1. The challenge of secularism [Demonization of the world -- Autonomous spheres of life -- The false theological sanctioning of autonomy -- Autonomy in the morally independent subject] -- 2. The challenge of humanism [The interchangeability of faith -- The interchangeability of ethics -- The distinctiveness of Christian ethics at the level of motives -- Differentiation from the ethics of disposition -- Disposition and Christian existence] -- 3. Dogmatics and ethics [The traditional incorporation of ethics into dogmatics -- The way to ethical autonomy -- The relation of dogmatics and ethics] -- 4. The place of evangelical ethics between the two aeons [The Christian as a citizen of two aeons -- The eschatological character of Christian ethics] -- PART TWO: THE FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF ETHICS -- A. Justification and sanctification [5. The new obedience {Justification as the presupposition of evangelical ethics -- The dual motivation of good works in the justified -- The motive of "good fruits" in the Bible -- The motive of "good fruits" in Luther and the Confessions -- The motive of the imperative in the Bible -- The motive of the imperative in Luther and the Confessions} -- 6. Co-ordination of the indicative and the imperative {One-sided emphasis on the imperative -- One-sided emphasis on the indicative -- The twofold significance of the imperative (The demand to decide for the Spirit -- The demand to renounce whatever hinders the Spirit)} -- 7. Law and Gospel as constant partners {The distinction between Law and Gospel -- Barth on Gospel and Law -- Luther on Law and Gospel -- Calvin on Gospel and Law -- Luther versus Calvin on Law and Gospel} -- 8. The continuing pedagogic significance of the Law for believers {The quantitative aspect of justification -- Law as a loving reminder -- Law as a comfort in time of doubt -- Law as a servant of love in the political sphere}] -- B. The command of the Creator and the Law for the fallen world [9. The command of Creation and the image of God in man {God's original will and the Law in salvation history -- The Imago Dei as task and as destiny -- The teleological view of the Imago Dei -- The ontological view of the Imago Dei} -- 10. The Christological character of the Imago Dei {The fact of our participation in the divine likeness of Christ -- The form of our participation in the divine likeness of Christ} -- 11. The evangelical-Roman Catholic debate on Creation and the original state {The Roman Catholic view of nature and supernature -- The evangelical view of man before God} -- 12. The evangelical-Roman Catholic debate on justification and grace {The evangelical view of the human person in relationship -- The Roman Catholic view of depersonalized grace} -- 13. Implications of the Imago doctrine for evangelical ethics {Christian ethics and non-Christian morality -- The validity of the Commandments outside of faith -- The political function of the law and salvation history} -- 14. The law of the fallen world {Creation and sin -- The freedom of creation and the enslaved will -- Original sin and responsibility}] -- C. The problem of norms: (1) Conscience [15. The evangelical view of conscience {Man in dialogue -- The unrest of the unredeemed conscience -- The self-pacification of the unredeemed conscience -- The unrest of the Christian conscience -- Conscience in the light of justification and sanctification} -- 16. The impossibility of conscience as a point of contact for the law of God {The Barth-Brunner controversy -- Luther on natural theology} -- 17. Autonomous conscience and the relativizing of the law of God {The historicizing of the Sermon on the Mount -- The blunting of the sermon's radicalism along quantitative lines (The Eudaemonistic link with self-love -- Precepts and counsels -- The three levels of love for God -- Intention and action) -- The legalistic and literal absolutizing of the sermon -- The restricting of the sermon to the area of disposition} -- 18. Luther's doctrine of the "two kingdoms" {God's will in the orders and in the radical commandment of the Sermon on the Mount -- Possible dangers in Luther's doctrine (The danger of a double morality: personal versus "official" -- The danger of secularization: autonomy for the various spheres of life -- The danger of harmonization: static and timeless coexistence) -- Built-in safeguards in Luther's doctrine (God works and rules in every sphere -- The command to love is fulfilled also in the orders) -- The eschatological corrective}] -- D. The problem of norms: (2) Natural law and the doctrine of the orders [19. The problem of natural law {The urgency of the problem today -- The meaning of "nature" in natural law -- The historical presuppositions of natural law} -- 20. Natural law in scholasticism {The abiding validity of the order of nature -- Primary and secondary natural law -- The concept of "conclusion" -- The concept of "circumstances"} -- 21. A critique of the Roman Catholic view of natural law {Inconstancy in the view of man -- Inconstancy in the understanding of justice -- The limitations of man's knowledge -- The validity of the secular quest for natural law} -- 22. "This world" and its orders {The orders as the structural form of man's fallen existence -- The negativity of the commandments and natural "lawlessness" -- The implications for economics and politics}] -- PART THREE: MAN'S RELATION TO THE WORLD -- 23. Theme and method in ethics [Christian freedom versus casuistry -- A theological approach to methodology] -- 24. The three zones of ethical validity [Personhood as man's relation to himself -- The I-thou relation -- The I-world relation -- The theological basis of the zones of ethical validity -- Man's understanding of himself in terms of the world -- Faith and worldliness -- The world as cosmos and as aeon] -- A. The conflict situation as typical of man's ethical relation to the world [25. Compromise as an ethical problem {The provisional character of life in this world -- The phenomenology of compromise} -- 26. Forms of compromise in the religious sphere {Roman Catholic casuistry: the problem of the "grand inquisitor" -- Evangelical proclamation: the problem of the mass society} -- 27. Compromise and the limits of truthfulness {Authentic and inauthentic accommodation in telling the truth -- The problem of the white lie (White lies in an unjust situation -- White lies by agreement) -- Examples of the white lie (Political expediency and diplomatic cunning -- Politeness and etiquette -- The truthfulness of a physician)} -- 28. God's "compromises" with the world {God's law as "compromise" -- The Gospel as "compromise"}] -- B. The borderline situation of extreme conflict [29. Meaning and analysis of the borderline situation {The theological relevance of the borderline situation -- The meaning of the term "borderline" -- The analysis of borderline situations -- Concrete forms of conflict (The conflict between life and truth -- The conflict between life and life -- The conflict between our obligation to people in general and a particular oath of loyalty) -- A theological interpretation of the borderline situation} -- 30. The commandments of God and the borderline situation {The ambiguity of the commandments in this world -- The problem of means and ends -- Ethical decision in concrete conflict situations (Life in the concentration camp -- Stealing as a matter of life or death -- Helping the persecuted Jews -- Murder, prostitution, and the concept of "the exception") -- The limits of authentic conflict in an unjust situation} -- 31. The guidance of the Holy Spirit in the given situation {Situational ethics -- Improvisation in the moment -- Praying to do what is right -- God's promise for insoluble ethical problems}] -- Indexes.
505 0 $aEditor's Foreword -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE POLITICAL ETHICS IN THE MODERN WORLD -- 1. Preliminary Questions of Method -- A. Authority and Democracy -- 2. The Transition from Authoritarian to Democratic Thinking -- Divine Creation and Human Control in Government -- B. Authority and Totalitarianism -- 3. Ideological Tyranny -- The Totalitarian State in Soviet Doctrine -- The Concept of Ideology -- The Concept of the Ideological Superstructure -- 4. The Pragmatism and Idolatry of the Ideologies -- The Pragmatic Background of Ideologies -- Ideology as a Means of Rule -- The Claim to Absoluteness -- Science and Ideology -- Ideology and Law -- Ideologies as Idolatry -- 5. The Relation of Ideological Tyranny to the Authoritarian State -- Revelation 13 as a Model of Ideological Tyranny -- The Demonism of Ideologized Christianity -- Human Rights between Ideology and the Minimal Norm -- The Non- Ideological Efficacy of Faith -- C. Authority and the Autonomies -- 6. The Concept of Autonomy -- Ineluctable Necessity versus Ethical Opportunity -- Preliminary Sketches of Autonomous Processes -- The Way to Equality of the Sexes -- Supply and Demand -- The Origins of the War -- 7. The Ethics of Politics in Actual History -- The Case Study Method -- Bismarck the "Christian Statesman" -- Bismarck's Personal Relation to the Christian Faith -- The Situation of the Christian in Actual History -- The Significance of Personal Faith for Concrete Political Action -- Theological Results of the Analysis -- Hitler and Dynamic Amorality -- The Absolutizing of Autonomy in Ideological Tyranny -- Autonomy and Ethical Decision -- 8. The Autonomy of Politics in Theory -- Carl Schmitt and the "Friend- Foe Relationship" -- The View of Man in Machiavelli and Thomas More -- PART TWO THE NATURE OF THE STATE -- A. The Phenomenology of the State -- 9. The State and the Individual -- Retrospect and Prospect -- The State as a goal and as a Means of Individual Existence -- the Overarching Third Factor -- 10. The State and Moral Society -- The Meta- Ethical exercise of State Power -- The Difference between Law and Morality -- The Common Root -- The Dialetical Relationship -- Law and the Noachic Covenant -- 11. The Nature of Power -- The General Concept of Power -- The Psychological Aspect -- The Teleogical Aspect -- The Phenomenological Aspect -- The Ambiguity of Power -- 12. Power and Authority -- Force versus the Power of Persuasion -- Authority and Autonomy -- Authority and Loyalty -- Authority and Freedom -- Theonomy and Autonomy -- Authority and Confidence -- 13. The Distribution of Powers -- The Basic Problem of Dividing the Indivisible -- Individual Freedom and the "Totalitarian Group" -- Concrete Measures to ensure Distribution -- Representation and Delegation -- The Political Party -- The Separation between Party and Government -- Two Borderline Cases -- The Theological Locus of the Problem -- Human Rights and the Limitation of Power -- B. Theology of the State -- 14. The Biblical Concept of the State -- The Theological Background of Power -- The Power of God -- The Powerlessness of Jesus Christ -- The Relation between Power and Love -- The Provisional Character of the State between Fall and Judgement -- C. Concrete Illustrations of the Ethical Consequences -- 15. The Minimal State in Education -- The Interests of the State -- The Role of the Church -- The Rights of Parents -- The Personal Element in the Orders -- The Primacy of Parental Rights -- The Implementation of Parental Rights -- 16. The Minimal State in Welfare -- The Problem of Institutionalizing Love -- The Development of the Welfare State -- Reasons for the Development -- The Form of the Development -- The Conseqeunces of the Development -- Checking the Trend -- PART THREE BORDERLINE SITUATIONS -- A. Resistance to State Authority -- 17. The Applicability of Scipture and Tradition in the Question of Resistance -- The Authority of Scriptual Citations -- The Relevance of the Church's Tradition -- 18. The Situations of Resistance -- The Legality and Legitimacy of Resistance -- The Legality of Opposition in Democracy -- The Illegality of Oppositon in Totalitarianism -- Summary Sketch of the Possibilities -- 19. Revolution -- The Dubious Character of all Revolutionary Acts -- The Residue of "Authority" Even in the Questionable Regime -- The Ethical Complexity of Revolution and Tyrannicide -- The Anarchical Results of Revolution -- Revolution as a Last Resort -- Premises for an Ethically Legimate Revolution -- The Availability of a Successor Government -- The Ripeness of the Situation -- Legitmation by the People as a Whole -- The Problem of Revolution in Democracy -- 20. Opposition to Individual Measures -- Opposition in a Democracy -- Normal Opposition -- Two Borderline Cases -- Opposition in the Totalitarian -- Christian Resistance -- The Agents of Resistance -- The Revelance of Luther's Theology of Politics -- 21. The Oath of Loyalty and the Resistance Situation -- The Concept of the Oath -- The Appeal to a Higher Authority -- Two Kinds of Oath -- Three Functions of the Oath of Loyalty -- The Oath in the Bible -- The Oath in Reformation Teaching -- The Limits of the Oath -- Annulment of the Oath and the Church as Watchman -- 22. Military Obedience -- Obedience in the Military and in Civilian Life -- Restriction of the Soldier's Maturity -- The Necessity for Unrequestioning Obedience -- Discipline and Drill -- Servile Fear -- Responsibility of Commanders -- Responsibility of Subordinates -- B. War -- 23. Traditional Ethics and the Atomic Age -- The Nature of War -- War and the State -- New Problems of the Atomic Age -- 24. The Orgins of War -- The Problem of Sovereignty in International Affairs -- The Nature of Sovereignty -- The Theological Signifigance of Sovereignty -- The Tragic-Naturalistic Interpretation of Conflicting Sovereignties -- The Theological Understanding of Associations of States -- The Idolizing of the Laws of Conflict -- The Tempting Combination of Egoism and Altruism -- The Psychological Fascination of War -- The Concealment of Brutal Motives -- 25. The Relative Justification of War -- The Problem in Tradition -- The Bible -- The Church Fathers -- Roman Catholic Moral Theology -- Evangelical Theology -- The Right Defense -- Peaceful Order Through Power and the Dangers Involved with Breaking the Peace -- The Radical Question of What May Actually Be Defended -- 26. War in the Atomic Age -- The Question of Atomic Peace -- The New Quality of War -- The Mistrust Which Leads to Retaining Atomic Weapons While Rejecting Atomic War -- The Problems of the Physical Balance of Atomic Powers -- The Choice Between Communism and World Destruction -- The Concept of the Psychological Deterrent -- The Church and Atomic War -- Realism in Church Pronouncements -- The Church's Preaching with Reference to the Atom -- The Church's Counsel with Reference to the Atom -- 27. Pacifism -- Idealistic Pacifism -- Rationalistic Pacifism -- Pragmatice Pacifism -- Tolstoi -- Gandhi -- The Relevance of Non-Violence to Atomic Disputes -- 28. Conscientious Objection -- The Basic Question and its Modern Variants -- The Reasons for Refusing Military Service and the Appeal to Conscience -- The Situation of the State -- Possibilities of Regulation -- PART FOUR THE THEOLOGICAL DEBATE ON CHURCH AND STATE -- 29. The Roman Catholic View of Church and State -- The Theocratic Tendency in the Interrelatinf of Spiritual and Temporal Power -- Spiritual and Temporal Power -- Christians as Members of Both Spheres -- The State Defined by Natural Law, Which Is in Turn Defined by the Church -- The Implications of Christology and Ecclesiology -- The Background in the History of Dogma -- The Implications for Catholic-Protestant Co-operation -- The Problems of the Christian Party -- 30. The Reformed View of Church and State -- Calvinist "Activism" and Lutheran "Quietism" -- The Underlying Theological Differences -- Monistic Thinking in Terms of Decree -- Calvin's VIew of Law and Gospel -- The Intermediate Position of Abraham Kuyper -- The Extreme Theocracy of Arnold van Ruler -- PART FIVE THE MESSAGE OF THE CHURCH AND STATE -- 31. The Church and Politics -- Church and World in Connection and Seperation -- The Word the Comes and the Word that Goes Forth -- The Church above the Times -- The Church in Time -- False Conservatism -- False Revolutionism -- Politcal Preaching in Specific Situations -- The East-West Conflict -- The Church in the Totalitarian State -- The Law of Infiltration and Subversion -- 32. Review of Methedology -- Indexes.
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