The Doctrine of the Trinity and the Unity of the Church

Niebuhr, H. Richard

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“…This tension is no more evident than in H. Richard Niebuhr's quasi‐Trinitarian ethic that sets the two Testaments against one another by pitting the ethics of the Father and Spirit against that of the Son. He does so by identifying a Christological ethic of love that applies only in limited Christian contexts, a pneumatological ethic of experience that informs ecclesial ethics in wider contexts, and a creational ethic rooted in God the Father that is more general and applicable to all people everywhere (Niebuhr 1951, 114, 131; 1946, 371–84). Likewise, his brother Reinhold distinguishes between a notion of justice that is rooted in creation and binding upon all persons and an agape ethic that is revealed in the cross of Christ and cannot realistically be deemed normative in a fallen world (Niebuhr 1932, 51–82, 257–77; 1956, 43–62; and 1986, 102–22).…”

Section: Why the Politics Of Jesus Needs A Prequelmentioning

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THE POLITICS OF YHWH: John Howard Yoder's Old Testament Narration and Its Implications for Social Ethics

Nugent

2011

Journal of Religious Ethics

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The apparent tension between the moral codes of the Old and New Testaments constitutes a perennial problem for Christian ethics. Scholars who have taken this problem seriously have often done so in ways that presume sharp discontinuity between the Testaments. They then proceed to devise a system for identifying what is or is not relevant today, or what pertains to this or that particular social sphere. John Howard Yoder brings fresh perspectives to this perennial problem by refuting the presumption of intratestamental discontinuity. Throughout multiple scattered works on the Old Testament, Yoder offers a coherent and provocative narration that culminates in the way of Christ and establishes the ethical continuity of the entire biblical canon. This essay presents the basic parameters of Yoder's Old Testament narration, suggests points where revision is needed, and highlights several implications for social ethics.

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Section: Why the Politics Of Jesus Needs A Prequelmentioning

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THE POLITICS OF YHWH: John Howard Yoder's Old Testament Narration and Its Implications for Social Ethics

Nugent

2011

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“…One can construe the doctrine as a rule for avoiding reductive and excessive emphases on one or another of the modes or “persons” in Christian thinking and discourse about God and God's way with the world. H. Richard Niebuhr deploys the doctrine in this way (see H. R. Niebuhr 1996). Reinhold Niebuhr need see no reason not to endorse this approach to it.…”

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HAUERWAS'S WITH THE GRAIN OF THE UNIVERSE¹ AND THE BARTHIAN OUTLOOK: A Few Observations

Gustavsson

2007

Journal of Religious Ethics

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This article has two main divisions, the first consisting in parts 1-3, the second in parts 4-8. The purpose of the first division is to assess Hauerwas's contentions regarding what he takes to be serious debilities in modern theological culture. The objects of Hauerwas's criticism are:(1) natural theology; (2) reason as it is represented in the structure of the modern university and in the "Enlightenment Project"; and (3) liberal Protestantism-the latter particularly as it turns up, by his account, in Reinhold Niebuhr's theology. The article will offer a defense of natural theology and an alternative approach to Niebuhr's theology while showing how Hauerwas's contentions concerning these two matters are mistaken. Parts 4-8 are theological studies. These studies concentrate on selected though main aspects of Hauerwas's outlook. Part 4 concerns a problematic implication of the notion, mainly from Barth, of divinity's humanity; Part 5 a note of difficulty from William James about the idea of the theistic God and its pertinence to the Barthian or Hauerwasian God; Part 6 the relation between belief and witness; Part 7 theology's discourse and analogy; Part 8 the Barthian-Hauerwasian theology as a metaphysics. Part 1, concerning natural theology, stands over both divisions. These observations are not in the main intended as textual studies, though in certain passages the analysis is closely attentive to Hauerwas's text. Also, the paper does not offer the sort of account that would come from a historian, intellectual biographer, or social or cultural analyst or critic. Its focus is philosophical-theological criticism.

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The Divine in the Commonplace

King¹

2019

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