Ethics

Name: Ethics
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ISBN: 9780684815015

ISBN-10: 068481501X

ISBN-13: 9780684815015

Edition: 1995

Authors: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Neville H. Smith, Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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, claims Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is concrete instruction in a concrete situation. Although the author died before completing his work, this 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…

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List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 9/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



General editor's forword to Dietrich Bonhoeffer works


Editor's introduction to the English edition



Manuscripts in a reconstructed writing sequence


Christ, reality, and good : Christ, church, and world


Ethics as formation


Heritage and decay


Guilt, justification, renewal


Ultimate and penultimate things


Natural life


History and good [1]


History and good [2]


God's love and the disintegration of the world


Church and world I


On the possibility of the church's message to the world


The "ethical" and the "Christian" as a topic


The concrete commandment and the divine mandates


Editors' afterword to the German edition




Chronology of Ethics



Preparing the German edition of Ethics




Arrangements of Ethics



Facsimile pages, "heritage and decay"