Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Foundation of Christian Ethics
- Pauline Ethics
- Introduction
- His teachings make a significant
contribution to moral teachings of
christians today
- His letters
- Community Ethic
- Freedom from the law
- teaching on love
- teaching on marriage
- Sexual Ethics
- The role of the state
- He was from a Jewish
background and took part in
the persecution of christians
- Stephen: "Saul began to
destroy the church. Going
from house to house he
dragged off men and
women and put them in
prison"
- Christ appeared to him in a vision and asked him
"Saul Saul,why do you forspersecute me?"
- May have met a martyrs death under the reign of Nero in 64ad
- Community ethic
- Jenkins "Paul's
ethic is a
community ethic."
- He encouraged Galations to
live in harmony with one
another
- According to Pilch
"Differences are not
important so dont
bother about them"
- His community ethic involves all types of
christians and teaching them to live in divine
harmony
- Freedom from the law
- Christians are free from mosaic law
- a man is not
justified by
observing the law
but by faith in
Jesus Christ
- The law was to prepare people for the
coming of Jesus. Now that Jesus had
arrived, the law as not required
- The law had a short term
role. Child custodian
example.
- Teaching on Love
- Agape was central to the moral
teaching of Jesus
- When Christians are faced with a moral
dillemma, they have a moral duty to follow
the most loving course of action
- Marriage and Sexual Ethics
- Describes incest as "a man living with his father's wife."
- Christians must rid the community of the corruption
and wickedness that contaminates it
- Paul encourages those who are married to remain faithful
- Beatitudes
- Blessed are the poor in spirit, for
theirs is the Kingdom of heaven
- Barclay "The man who is poor in spirit is the man who has
realised that things mean nothing and God means everything"
- Mathews intention in spiritualising this beatitude may be to highlight that it is not material poverty being
blessed by Jesus but blessing someone who is totally lost without God in their lives.