TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frame,John M.
TI  - The doctrine of the Christian life
T2  - Theology of lordship
SN  - 9780875527963 (cloth)
AV  - BS680.E84 F73 2008
U1  - 241 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Phillipsburg, N.J.
PB  - P & R Pub.
KW  - Ethics in the Bible
KW  - Christian ethics
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 1001-1014) and indexes; Analytical outline -- Preface -- Part one : Introductory considerations. Introduction -- An ethical glossary -- Ethics and divine Lordship -- Part two : Non-Christian ethics. Lordship and non-Christian ethics -- Ethics and the world's religions -- The existential tradition -- The teleological tradition -- The Deontological tradition -- Part three : Christian ethical methodology. The organism of revelation -- Attributes of scripture -- The sufficiency of scripture -- Law in biblical ethics -- Applying the law -- Situation and norm -- Our ethical situation -- Redemptive history -- Our chief end -- Goodness and being -- Motives and virtues -- The new life as a source of ethical knowledge -- The organs of ethical knowledge -- Part four : The Ten Commandments. The First Commandment : no other gods -- The First Commandment : contemporary issues -- The Second Commandment : prohibited images -- The Second Commandment : regulating worship -- The Third Commandment : reverence for God's name -- the Fourth Commandment : views of Sabbath keeping -- The Fourth Commandment : Theology of the Sabbath -- The Fourth Commandment : The Sabbath in the New Covenant -- The Fifth Commandment : Honoring authorities -- The Fifth Commandment : family, church, and state -- The Fifth Commandment : man and woman -- The Fifth Commandment : equalities, racial and otherwise -- The Sixth Commandment : respecting life; The Sixth Commandment : war and punishment -- The Sixth Commandment : protecting life -- The Seventh Commandment : sexual purity -- The Seventh Commandment : divorce and remarriage -- The Seventh Commandment : reproduction -- The Eighth Commandment : respecting property -- The Eighth Commandment : wealth and poverty -- The Ninth Commandment : truthfulness -- The Tenth Commandment : the desires of the heart -- Part five : Christ and culture. What is culture? -- Christ and culture -- Christ and our culture -- Christians in our culture -- Culture in the church -- Part six : Personal spiritual maturity. Growing in grace -- Appendixes. Ethics and biblical events -- Zwingli and Reformed ethics -- Schleiermacher and Protestant ethics -- Gentleness in the pastorate -- In defense of Christian activism -- Is natural revelation sufficient to govern culture? -- Review of R.J. Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law -- Review of Peter Richardson, Paul's Ethic of Freedom -- Review of Margaret Howe, Women in Church Leadership -- Review of Hessel Bouma III et al., Christian Faith, Health, and Medical Practice -- Review of R.F.R. Gardner, Abortion : the Personal Dilemma -- Review of Beverly Wildung Harrison, Our Right to Choose : Toward a New Ethic of Abortion
N2  - The third volume of Frame's Theology of Lordship series, this book focuses on biblical ethics, presenting a method for ethical decision-making, an analysis of biblical ethical teaching focusing on the Ten Commandments, and a discussion of the relation of Christ to human culture. - Publisher
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0811/2008005337.html
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