Aquinas said: “Consequently, law must needs concern itself mainly with the order that is in beatitude.” From this we can see that the Bible played a big part in the development of Natural Law; this proves that Christians make moral decisions through a multiple of different ways. The Bible clearly has a
Reflection on J. Daniel Hays Essay Applying the Old Testament Law Today OBST 591-D15 Old Testament Orientation I Dr. Robert E. Cole Leisha Edwards November 8, 2012 REFLECTION ON HAYS’ APPROACH TO OLD TESTAMENT LAW According to the Hays’ article “Applying the Old Testament Law Today, it is my interpretation, based on the Old Testament that Hays’ suggest that Christians should adhere to moral, civic and ceremonial laws. He conveys this point by saying the Christians should adhere to moral law. Moreover, he uses the word principlism that by definition includes civic and ceremonial laws. He also offers five steps to applying the law. First, we are to identify the initial audience.
This statement bring us back to the original question, which is the title of his essay, "Is the bible true?". From his statement I deciphered and created an answer to the question. Yes, the bible is true, but it depends on how you read and decode the text. Placher used examples from past literatures and links them back to examples in the bible to establish his point. One of the numerous examples was David McCullough's biography of Harry Truman and Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist.
Discuss the meaning of justice and consider whether justice is achieved in English Law (30 marks) There is an argument within the English Legal System as to the degree of convergence between law and Justice and its effects on the system. Law is a set of standardised procedures that regulate society and enforce basic rights. It was defined by John Austin as ‘the command of a sovereign enforced by a sanction’ and by Sir John Salmond as ‘the principles used in the administration of justice’. Laws are created by Parliament (the sovereign power). An example of a law created by Parliament is s.18 GBH under the Offences Against the Persons Act 1861 which carries a sanction of up to life imprisonment.
(Stassen, Yeager, & Yoder, 1996, p. 10) Module 4 consists of a clear presentation of the teleological ethical perspective of Niebuhr, as well as his classical typology (and examples from church history) of distinct responses to the enduring problem of how Christians can or should live in a fallen world. This is followed by a thorough analysis and critique of Niehbuhr's model by John Howard Yoder. The Basics of Christ and Culture Briefly, Niebuhr's five types of Christian ethics as noted by Stassen et al. (1996) include the following: · New Law (Christ Against Culture) portrays Christians as a totally new kind of people living by totally new ethical standards at odds with all foundational aspects of worldly cultures. · Natural Law (Christ of Culture) portrays Christians as seeking to accommodate the ethics and values of the Gospel to bring out the very best in existing but imperfect cultures.
Appiah also asserts that both positivism and relativism cannot support the idea of cosmopolitanism because the definition of cosmopolitanism is that every humanity should belongs in to one community, in this community, people respect and communicate with each other in moral way. Everybody shares their thoughts and form a group. Although positivism dose respect each other, their ethics are only judge by right or wrong. As Appiah mentioned that “if relativism about ethics and morality were true, then, at the end of many discussions, we would each have to end up saying, from where I stand, I am right. From where you stand, you are right.”(26) But everyone has different feelings, different perspectives to view different things.
Relative Ethics allows people to understand why they take the actions they do. It allows them to explain their reasons. This contrasts to Absolutism where everyone who follows has to follow the same rules and laws. Cultral backgrounds and religious views make absolutism unrealistic. Right and wrong is a reflection of people’s emotions, and as emotions vary, they can never have the same views on subjects.
So how does this Book that was written several thousands of years ago have to say about the modern civilization? Ethics can be defined as ‘the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles’. In the bible there are certain ethical teachings for example, The Ten Commandments, which defines what people must do in order to serve God faithfully and gives direction on how to live a life to be a good Christian person. With love being the main concept of the Bibles ethical teachings, Christians are shown how to live a happy truthful life. The Bible is a guidance for one to see how they may aspire to make moral and ethical decisions.
Running head: EVANGELICAL THEOLOGY Evangelical Theology Dianna Barr 440-527-8677 Grand Canyon University Contemporary Theology - HTH 469 May 23, 2011 Evangelical Theology Stanley Grenz and Roger Olsen co-authored 20th Century Theology – God and the World in a Transitional Age (1992). The book gives their interpretation of the way religious theology developed in a modern age and how they saw divine transcendence and immanence, especially from the Evangelical viewpoint. Grenz & Olsen Chapter Ten – Evangelical Theology Evangelical theology had a tough assignment. It had to stay balanced between divine transcendence and divine immanence while discerning factual biblical truths. To do this it also had to stay within the
Today in Plymouth, Massachusetts, there is a monument, a huge 81ft tall symbol that shows that we were founded as a Christian nation. This National Monument to the Forefathers gives us their blueprint, showing the path to what made this nation what it is. This blueprint is what Christian symbolism is derived from. It shows the Ten Commandments, Liberty, and Morality and thirteen other statements that show a country founded with Christian principles. The Founding Fathers, the George Washington’s, Thomas Jefferson’s, and many others that signed our Declaration of Independence, those who wrote the Constitution as it sits today.