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Christian Ethics and the Being of God

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Keith Ward
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I. Is there anything distinctive about Christian ethics? Many recent writers have claimed that there is, but have at the same time denied that this distinctiveness depends upon the truth of any factual assertions about the being of God. Some have gone even further, and claimed that the Christian faith is nothing but commitment to a distinctive ethic—of concern for others, or ‘agapism’—and does not involve any belief about the existence of supernatural beings.

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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , March 1969 , pp. 78 - 89
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1969

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page 78 note 1 cf. van Buren, , The Secular Meaning of the Gospel (London: S.C.M. Press, 1963), p. 101.Google Scholar ‘The language of faith has meaning when it is taken to refer to the Christian way of life; it is not a set of cosmological assertions.’

page 83 note 1 Ryle, G., The Concept of Mind (London: Hutcheson, 1949), p. 89.Google Scholar

page 85 note 1 Schleiermacher, , ‘The Christian Faith’, 1, para. 4, trans, in Smart, N., Historical Selections in the Philosophy of Religion (London: S.C.M. Press, 1912), p. 307.Google Scholar

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