A study of Paul’s theology in the Bible, focusing on his view of the old covenant God made with Israel and the new covenant Jesus announced at the Last Supper.
B. Payne, 'The Significance of Lutheranizing Changes in Erasmus' Interpretation of Paul's Letters to the Romans and the Galatians in His Annotationes (1527) and Paraphrases (1532)', CHB, III, pp. 312-30. In the 5th edition of the Novum ...
Hence, Christian ethics examines the understanding of good character as defined by those gathering communities that understand themselves to be Christian, and it has the strongest hold on those who identify their primary allegiances as ...
Does neuroscience show that all our ideas about law and ethics are false? David Opderbeck answers this question with a broad and deep survey of the relationship between theology, science, and ethics.
The conclusion of the previous section is thus confirmed: “works of the law” refer not exclusively but particularly to those requirements which bring to sharp focus the distinctiveness of Israel's identity. But this approach is also not ...
While stressing the meaning of termination in a context where this can only mean “the law is finished” (p. 106), Beker also accepts the meaning of goal' and fulfillment'. 'Christ is the end of the law (10:4) both in terms of its goal ...
The End of Law applies Augustine’s questions to modern legal philosophy as well as offering a critical theory of natural law that draws on Augustine’s ideas.
The basic meaning of gûr is to “live, settle, dwell.” By and large, this verb refers to someone living outside of their clan, that is, dwelling among people who are not blood relatives. It almost always has the sense of temporariness.
Especially interesting on this score is a 1942 book by G. A. Walz, published by the Nazis themselves: much of this book borrows directly from Schmitt's writings! G. A. Walz, Völkerrechtsordnung und Nationalsozialismus (Munich: ...
The Supreme Court and Assisted Suicide Carl E. Schneider, Carl Schneider, Professor of Law and Internal Medicine Carl E Schneider. ment , he asserted , the patient's death results from the underlying illness or injury , but in assisted ...
This book identifies the underlying source of these battles in the spread of the instrumental view of law - the idea that law is purely a means to an end - in a context of sharp disagreement over the social good.