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The loss of human worth in modern life and the hope of its recovery in the zone of Christian redemption -- Speculative Philosophy and the moral quest -- Naturalistic ethics and the animalization of the moral life -- Elemental naturalism -- Ancient: Sophism -- Ancient: Cyrenaicism -- Modern Reflectio...

Love, the Divine imperative in personal relations -- The uniqueness of the Christian ethic of love the example of unrequited love in the life of Jesus -- The implications of the ethic of love for daily life -- The Determination of the content of the moral life -- The loss of biblical authority leads...

Philosophical and theological virtues contrasted -- The virtues Jesus approbated -- The Pauline virtues -- Conscience as a Christian phenomenon -- Conscience in its biblical sense -- Conscience in relation to Christ -- The good and the bad conscience -- The education of conscience -- Freedom of cons...

Section II: Christianity and the moral revelation: the redemption of the moral life -- The image of God created and sullied -- Relation of speculative ethics and revealed ethics -- Hebrew-Christian ethics asserts a unique basis -- No fixed contact between secular and Christian systems -- Yet imago D...

The Law and the Gospel -- Older controversies over the relevance of the Law -- Recent controversies over the relevance of the Law -- The Law as a scripturally fixed rule of life -- The political purpose of the Law -- The pedagogic purpose of the Law -- The didactic purpose of the Law -- Christian et...