Ethics
By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer ; edited by Eberhard Bethge ; translated by Neville Horton Smith
Series: The Library of philosophy and theology; Library of philosophy and theology
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1955
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Christian ethics
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The love of God and the decay of the world --; title: The world of conflicts --; title: Shame --; title: Shame and conscience --; title: The world of recovered unity --; title: The Pharisee --; title: Proving --; title: Doing --; title: Love --; title: The church and the world --; title: The total and exclusive claim of Christ --; title: Christ and good people --; title: Ethics as formation --; title: The theoretical ethicist and reality --; title: Ecce Homo! --; title: The despiser of men --; title: The successful man --; title: The idolization of death --; title: Conformation --; title: The concrete place --; title: Inheritance and decay --; title: Guilt, Justification and renewal --; title: The confession of guilt --; title: Justification and the healing of the wound --; title: The last things and the things before the last --; title: Justification as the last word --; title: The penultimate --; title: The preparing of the way --; title: The natural --; title: Natural life --; title: Suum cuique --; title: The right to bodily life --; title: Suicide --; title: Reproduction and nascent life --; title: The freedom of bodily life --; title: The natural rights of the life of the mind --; title: Christ, reality and good (Christ, the church and the world) --; title: The concept of reality --; title: Thinking in terms of two spheres --; title: The four mandates --; title: History and good --; title: Good and life --; title: The structure of responsible life --; title: Deputyship --; title: Correspondence with reality --; title: The world of things - Pertinence - Statecraft --; title: The acceptance of guilt --; title: Conscience --; title: Freedom --; title: The place of responsibility --; title: Vocation --; title: The 'ethical' and the 'Christian' as a theme --; title: The warrant for ethical discourse --; title: The commandment of God --; title: The concrete commandment and the divine mandates --; title: The concept of the mandate --; title: The commandment of God in the church --; title: The doctrine of the primus usus legis according to the Lutheran sybolia writings --; title: The concept and its usefulness --; title: The theological justification for the doctrine --; title: Interest in the concept --; title: Definition --; title: Contents --; title: Its purpose --; title: Means of execution --; title: The proclaimer --; title: The healer --; title: The primus usus and the gospel --; title: Some deductions and questions --; title: Critique of the doctrine of usus in the Lutheran symbolic writings --; title: 'Personal' and 'real' ethos --; title: Personal or real ethos --; title: The New Testament --; title: The symbolic writings --; title: Some criticisms of Dilschneider's thesis --; title: Systematic consideration concerning the assertions which Christian ethics may make with regard to secular institutions --; title: State and church --; title: The concepts involved --; title: The basis of government --; title: In the nature of man --; title: In sin --; title: In Christ --; title: The divine character of government --; title: In its being --; title: In its task --; title: In its claim --; title: Government and the divine institutions in the world --; title: Government and church --; title: Government's claim on the church --; title: The church's claim on government --; title: The ecclesiastical responsibility of government --; title: The political responsibility of the church --; title: Conclusions --; title: The church and the form of the state --; title: On the possibility of the word of the church to the world --; title: What is meant by 'telling the truth?' --; title: Indexes --; title: Names --; title: Subjects --; title: Biblical references --; title: References to the Lutheran Symbolic Writings.