Christian Ethics

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: - t ON THE CONCEPT OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS. regenerated, not merely to receive by grace the forgiveness of sin, and to be .acknowledged as just before God, but also, as an apostle says, to become partakers of the divine nature (2 Pet. i. 4), which is the alone good; for none is good but One, that is God (Mark...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: - t ON THE CONCEPT OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS. regenerated, not merely to receive by grace the forgiveness of sin, and to be .acknowledged as just before God, but also, as an apostle says, to become partakers of the divine nature (2 Pet. i. 4), which is the alone good; for none is good but One, that is God (Mark x. 18); and that only in this way can we obtain the possibility of even beginning a really moral life, or as Christianity expresses it, a life of holiness, as it is also the teaching of Christianity that the human will, though enslaved by sin, has yet the power to receive or reject the divine aid which is offered to it. It is finally the testimony of Christianity, that the whole development of free-will in man, in order to be normal, must have its foundation in grace, and in an invisible kingdom of gracious operations, and that thus the relation of free-will at every point is regulated by the relation of dependence on the God of grace and of redemption. But as the antinomy here referred to, Thou shalt, but thou canst not, is a practical antinomy which can only be learnt by experience in the inner contest of life, so the solution of Christianity is not merely theoretic but practical, and no one can be persuaded of its validity unless he will himself make the experiment in unconstrained submission to the gospel. CHRISTIAN MORALITY. CATHOLICISM AND PROTESTANTISM. What is peculiar in Christian morality rests on its religious assumptions. These may all be summed up in the one: the incarnation of God in Christ. Through Christ as the only begotten Son of God and as the Son of man we arrive at the true conception of God and the true conception of humanity, and the contrast between sin and grace, the redemption of the world, and the perfection of the world are reve...