Forgiveness and the Novelty of Christian Ethics
Christian faith, and particularly Christian Ethics, must wrestle with the questions of novelty and continuity posed by Scripture's declaration that a new thing has occurred with the advent of Jesus Christ. The contrasting perspectives on the Law by Thomas Aquinas and Herman Bavinck focus these...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2023
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Modern theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 39, Issue: 3, Pages: 472-489 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
/ Bavinck, Herman 1854-1921
/ Law and Gospel
/ Forgiveness
/ Christian ethics
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IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HC New Testament KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history NCA Ethics |
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Summary: | Christian faith, and particularly Christian Ethics, must wrestle with the questions of novelty and continuity posed by Scripture's declaration that a new thing has occurred with the advent of Jesus Christ. The contrasting perspectives on the Law by Thomas Aquinas and Herman Bavinck focus these questions and suggest that forgiveness is an important point of reference for answering them. The importance of forgiveness in Christ's moral teaching suggests that Christian Ethics is marked out by a distinctive awareness of time. The impact of this reorganisation is already apparent in many places in the New Testament, including the posture we see taken towards political authority. |
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ISSN: | 1468-0025 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/moth.12855 |