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A concise handbook presents the philosophical and theological foundations of Christian moral thought, surveying pre-Christian ethical traditions and articulating presuppositions about God, sin, and human responsibility. It examines human personality, the witness and validity of conscience, and the problem of free will. Modern secular theories of life are contrasted with a Christian ideal that emphasizes intensified and expanded life, holiness, righteousness, and love. The work then treats moral motivation and the renewing power of repentance, faith, and divine aid, analyzes virtues and duties toward self, others, and God, and applies principles to social institutions and practical conduct.

II. SPECIAL SUBJECTS

1. Ethics of Jesus.

Briggs, Ethical Teaching of Jesus; P. Brooks, Influence of Jesus;
Dale, Laws of Christ for Common Life; Feddersen, Jesus und die
Socialen Dinge
; Gardner, Exploratio Evangelica; Ehrhardt, Der
Grundcharacter d. Ethik Jesu
, 1895; Grimm, Die Ethik Jesu, 1903;
Peabody, Jesus Christ and the Christian Character, 1905; Jesus
Christ and the Social Question
, 1902; The Approach to the Social
Question
, 1909; King, The Ethics of Jesus, 1910; Moral and Social
Challenge of our Times
, 1912; Rau, Die Ethik Jesu; Stalker, Imago
Christi
, 1888; The Ethic of Jesus, 1909; Mathews, The Social
Teaching of Jesus
; Horton, The Commandments of Jesus; W. N. Clarke,
The Ideal of Jesus, 1911.

2. Teaching of Jesus and Apostles.

Works of A. B. Bruce; Gilbert, Revelation of Jesus; Harnack, What is Christianity? (Das Wesen); Sayings of Jesus; Jülicher, Gleichnissreden Jesu; Denney, Jesus and the Gospel, 1909; Latham, Pastor Pastorum; Moorhouse, Pullan, Ross, Von Schrenck, Stevens, Swete; Tolstoy, My Religion; Wendt, Lehre Jesu (2 ed.), 1901; Weizsäcker, The Apostolic Age; Hausrath, History of N. T. Times; Fairbairn, Christ in Modern Thought; D. La Touche, The Person of Christ in Modern Thought, 1911; Pfanmüller, Jesus im Urtheil d. Jahrhunderte; Bacon, Jesus, the Son of God; Dalman, Words of Jesus; Baur, Paulinismus; Bosworth, Teaching of Jesus and Apostles; Pfleiderer, Paulinismus; Primitive Christianity; Johan-Weiss, Paul and Jesus; Gardner, Relig. Experience of St. Paul; Alexander, Ethics of St. Paul.

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C.—HISTORY OF ETHICS

See Histories of Philosophy: Ueberweg, Erdmann, Windelband, Schwegler,
Maurice, Rogers; Alexander, A Short History of Philosophy (2nd ed.),
1908; Lecky, Hist. of Europ. Morals; Luthardt, History of Ethics;
Rogers, A Short History of Ethics, 1912; Thoma, Geschichte d.
Christl. Sittenlehre in der Zeit d. N. T.
, 1879; Wundt (Vol. II. of
Ethics
); Wuttke (Vol. I. of Ethics); Sidgwick, History of Ethics;
Ziegler, Gesch. d. Ethik; Jodl, Gesch. d. Ethik in d. Neueren
Philosophie
; T. C. Hall, History of Ethics within Organized
Christianity
, 1910. See also Relevant Articles in Bible Dictionaries,
especially Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics.

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INDEX

  Activism, 117, 122, 179.
  Adiaphora, 201.
  Aestheticism, 15 f., 108.
  Alquin, 2.
  Apocalyptic teaching of Christ, 133.
  Aquinas, Thomas, 2, 196.
  Aristotle, 10, 17 f., 40 f., 66, 70, 87, 107, 187.
  Arnold, Matthew, 1, 107.
  Asceticism, 129, 150, 192, 245.
  Assimilation to Christ, 179.
  Atonement, 166.
  Augustine, 30, 57 f., 66, 140, 231.
  Aurelius, Marcus, 43, 70.
  Avenarius, 86.

  Balch, 132, 133.
  Barbour, 41, 135, 157, 159, 161.
  Baur, 39.
  Beatitudes, 129, 136, 188.
  Beneficence, 213.
  Bentham, 103, 204.
  Bergson, 64, 91 f., 117 f.
  Bernard, 218.
  Blewett, Christian view of God, 170.
  Bosanquet, 16, 27, 64, 92, 113, 114.
  Bousset, 134, 135.
  Brotherhood, 145, 210, 243, 247.
  Browning, 3, 16, 60, 63, 77, 119, 131, 132, 138, 206, 218.
  Bunsen, 69.
  Burckhardt, 227.
  Burke, 204.
  Burkitt, 32.
  Burnet, 41.
  Burns, Robert, 204.
  Butcher, 41.
  Butler, Bishop, 166.

  Caird, E., 44, 60, 64, 245.
  —— J., 63.
  Cairns, 135.
  Calixtas, G., 2.
  Calvinism, 2, 57, 241.
  Cambridge Platonists, 39.
  Campbell, 69.
  Chamberlain, Houston, 48.
  Character, 6, 10, 14, 15, 24, 186;
    making of, 208.
  Childhood, children, 226 f.
  Christ, 1, 4, 5, 11 f., 124;
    as example, 146 f.;
    character of, 148 f., 150.
  Christianity, 123 f.
  Church, 4, 209, 236 ff.
  Citizenship, 39, 151, 233 f.
  Clarke, 240.
  Clement, 2, 39.
  Coleridge, 3.
  Collectivism, 106.
  Compassion, 212.
  Conduct, 1, 6, 13, 15, 183 f.
  Conscience, 68 f.
  Conversion, 171.
  Courage, 38, 186, 187, 190.
  Cousin, 16.
  Creative Evolution, 117.
  Croce, Benedetto, 117.
  Culture, 16, 99, 108, 130, 148, 156, 207, 208.

  Daemon of Socrates, 69.
  Danaeus, 2.
  Dante, 125, 138.
  Darwin, 74.
  David, Psalms, 48 f., 70.
  Davidson, 69, 81.
  Death of Christ, 166.
  Decalogue, 2, 45, 72.
  Deissmann, 162.
  Democracy, 235.
  Denney on Forgiveness, 163.
  Descartes, 204.
  Determinism, 88 f.
  Dewey, Professor, 64.
  Disinterestedness of motive, 156 f.
  Divorce, 224.
  Dobschütz, 134.
  Dogmatics, 3, 24 f.
  Dorner, 25 f.
  Drew, 31.
  Duty, Duties, 8, 21, 52, 196 ff.
  Dynamic of new life, 164 f.

  'Ecce Homo,' 152, 205.
  Ecclesiasticism, 3, 49.
  Economics, 17, 239.
  Ehrhardt, 151.
  Emerson on Example, 151.
  Empire, Roman, 43; 'Holy,' 242.
  Engels, 105.
  Epictetus, 43, 70.
  Epicureans, 42.
  Erinnyes of Aeschylus, 69.
  Eschatology, 133 f.
  Eternal life, 131.
  Ethics, Christian, 1 f., 5, 6, 10 ff;
    Philos., 22, 35 f., 168;
    permanence of, 245.
  —— of Israel, 44 ff.
  Eucken, 86, 93, 108, 115, 117, 121 f., 179, 203, 207, 235.
  Eugenics, 110, 255.
  Euripides, 69.
  Evil, 57 f., 62, 118.
  Evolutionalism, 74 f., 103 f.
  Example, human, 151, 214 f.;
    of Jesus, 140, 222 f.
  Externalism, 142 f.

  Fairbairn, A. M., 147.
  Faith, 65, 67, 174 f., 196, 216;
    Pauline doct., 177.
  Faithfulness, 200, 203, 216, 224, 231.
  Faith healing, 90.
  Family, 220 f.; relationships, 222, 226.
  Fatherhood of God, 141, 145, 153, 216.
  Feuerbach, 101.
  Fichte, 65, 112, 204.
  Forgiveness, divine, 153; human, 214.
  Forsyth, 224.
  'Foundations,' 173.
  Frazer, 29, 221.

  Garvie, 222.
  God, idea of, 26; sovereignty of, 27; fatherhood of, 27;
    love of, 28; recognition of, 215; obedience to, 216;
    worship of, 217.
  Godlikeness, 141, 218.
  Goethe, 58, 81, 107, 130, 212.
  Grace, means of, 209.
  Graces, 188.
  Grant, Sir A., on 'Mean,' 185.
  Greece, Ancient, 11, 35.
  Greeks, 16, 28, 69.
  Green, T. H., 18, 75, 77, 88, 187, 218.

  Haeckel, 86, 101.
  Haering, 21, 25, 156, 201.
  Harnack, 176, 205, 228.
  Hebrew, 35, 44.
  Hedonism, 104.
  Hegel, 9, 19, 55, 65, 112 f., 124, 204, 213, 231.
  Heraclitus, 37.
  Hermann, E., 125.
  Herrmann, 202.
  Hobbes, 57, 102.
  Hobhouse, 221.
  Holiness, 141; of Jesus, 149.
  Hope, 47, 197 f.
  Hügel, von, 126.
  Hume, 18.
  Hypnotism, 90.
  Hyslop, 14.

  Ideals, 6, 12; idealism, 107, 127 f.
  Ihering, 221.
  Immanence of God, 43, 93.
  Immortality, 155.
  Incarnation, 165 f.
  Indeterminism, 88.
  Individualism, 107, 204, 205.
  Inge, 16.
  Intellect and Intuition, 65, 118.
  Intellectualism, 64, 65, 114, 118.
  Intensity of life, 129 f.
  Interimsethik, 134 f., 246.
  Intuitionalism, 72.
  Irenaeus, 166.
  Israel, 35, 44, 70.

  Jacoby, 25, 142, 157.
  James, St., 29.
  —— W., 56, 65, 66, 89 f., 114 f., 172.
  Jones, Sir H., 132, 219, 231.
  Judaeism, Ethics of, 45.
  Judgment, final, 140; just judgment, 212.
  Justice, 32, 38, 172, 187 f., 210, 233.
  Justification by faith, 177.

  Kant, 13, 65 f., 74, 111 f., 152, 158, 162, 185, 204.
  Keim, 151.
  King, 134, 224, 227, 243.
  Kingdom of God, 132 f.
  Kirkup, 105.
  Knight, 36.

  Lassalle, 232.
  Law, Mosaic, 45 f., 70.
  Lecky, 43, 66, 211, 217.
  Lemme, 25, 79 f.
  Leonardo, 92.
  Lidgett, 27.
  Life, 12, 118; as ideal, 128; as vocation, 200;
    regard for, 207; as Godlikeness, 141; sacredness of, 142;
    Christ as standard of, 147; brevity of, 154; 'eternal,' 131.
  Lodge, Sir O., 172.
  Lofthouse, 221.
  Logic, 15, 118.
  Lotze, 88.
  Love, supremacy of, 28, 196 f; divine, 144, 153.
  Lütgert, 108.

  Maccabean age, 48.
  MacCunn, 203.
  Macdonald, Ramsay, 220.
  Mach, 85 f.
  Machiavelli, 70.
  Mackenzie, 13, 14, 19.
  Mackintosh, 26, 199.
  Macmillan, 112.
  Mallock, 232.
  Man, estimate of, 55 ff.; primitive, 57.
  Mark, St., 32.
  Marriage, 223, 225.
  Marshall, 224.
  Martensen, 25.
  Marx, 105.
  Massachusetts, 'Declaration of Rights,' 205.
  Matheson, Geo., 194.
  Mazzini on Rights, 203.
  'Mean' of Aristotle, 40, 185.
  Metaphysics, 3, 10, 17 f., 25, 37.
  Meyers, St. Paul, 168, 217.
  Micah, 47.
  Mill, J. S., 32, 103.
  Millar, Hugh, 56.
  Milton, 58.
  Mission of Jesus, 149.
  Missionary movement, 243.
  Moffatt, 134.
  Morality, 10, 37 f.
  Morals, 24. See Ethics.
  Morris, 92.
  Motives, 6, 10; Christian, 152 f.
  Muirhead, 14.
  Murray, 55, 58.
  Müller, Max, 58.

  Nativism, 72.
  Naturalism, 100 ff.
  Nemesis, 69.
  Neo-Platonism, 39 f., 40, 44, 245.
  'New Ethic,' 108.
  Nietzsche, 58, 109, 225, 232.
  Nine Foundation Pillars of Schmiedel, 31.
  Norm, Normative, 12, 146.
  Novalis, 16, 25.

  Obedience, 178.
  Old Dispensation, 45.
  Origin, 39.
  Orr, J., 142.
  Oswald, 86.
  Ottley, 59, 61, 209, 213.
  'Ought,' 12, 21, 80.

  Paine, 204.
  Parables of the kingdom, 137.
  Parents, 226.
  Parker, Theodore, 56.
  Pascal, 57, 59.
  Passions, 41, 58, 191.
  Paul, St., 22, 26, 30 f., 43, 47, 57 f.,
    66, 70, 77, 94 f., 162, 173, 177.
  Paulsen, 10, 151, 199.
  Peabody, 148, 150, 246.
  Pelagius, 56.
  Penalty, 162.
  Pensées, 59.
  Perfection, spiritual, 27, 141.
  Permissible, 202.
  Personality, 6, 55 f., 61, 112, 113, 122, 209, 213.
  Pfleiderer, 44.
  Pharisaism, 143.
  Philosophy, 4, 5, 9, 35 f.
  Plato, 18 f., 37 ff., 66, 107, 184, 187.
  Pluralism, 116.
  Poetry of Old Testament, 45 f., 48.
  Politics, 15 f.
  Postulates, 6, 18, 22, 25, 29.
  Power, divine, 164 f.
  Pragmatism, 63, 114 f.
  Prayer, 217.
  Pringle-Pattison, 103.
  Property, 213.

  Rashdall, 27.
  Realisation of self, 128.
  Reformation, 2, 11, 47.
  Regeneration, 171.
  Regret, 171.
  Renewal, 171.
  Renunciation of Gospel, 156.
  Repentance, 171.
  Response, human, 169.
  Responsibility of man, 29. See Will.
  Resurrection of Christ, 167.
  Revolution, French, 56, 235.
  Rewards, 157 f.
  Richter, Jean Paul, 155.
  Righteousness, 46 f., 52, 142, 192.
  Risen life, 167.
  Ritschlian school, 63, 90.
  Romanticism, 107.
  Rome, 35; Romanist, 243.
  Rousseau, 56 f., 100.
  Ruskin, 16.

  Sabatier, 66.
  Sacrifice of Christ, 166; self, 131, 191, 194, 209.
  Sanday, Professor, 139, 157.
  Schelling, 65.
  Schiller, 16, 107.
  Schleiermacher, 3, 25, 39, 201.
  Schmidt, 86.
  Schmiedel, 31.
  Schopenhauer, 109.
  Schultz on copying Christ, 152.
  Schweitzer, 134.
  Science, 13 f., 83.
  Scott, E., 134, 140.
  Seeley, 16.
  Self-regard, 207.
  Self-restraint of Jesus, 150.
  Self-sufficiency, 130.
  Seneca, 43, 70.
  Sermon on (the) Mount, 32.
  Seth, Jas., 103.
  Sin, 28 f., 140.
  Sinlessness of Jesus, 149.
  Smith, Adam, 103.
  Smyth, Newman, 17, 26, 132.
  Socialism, 105; social problems, 225 f., 239.
  Society. Social institutions, 220 ff.
  Socrates, 9, 36 f., 39, 69, 186.
  Sonship, 153.
  Sophists, 11, 36, 37.
  Sophocles, 69.
  Soul, 61, 119.
  Sovereignty of God, 27, 93, 144.
  Specialisation, 207.
  Spencer, 74 f., 103, 232.
  Spinoza, 18.
  Sport, 207.
  Stalker, 176, 224.
  Standard of New Life, 146 f.
  State, 229 ff.
  Stephen, Leslie, 17.
  Stoics, 42, 56, 70, 185, 194.
  Strauss, 151.
  Strong, 193.
  Sudermann, 110.
  Suffering, 202, 208.
  Summum bonum, 11. See Ideal.
  Symonds, 69.
  Sympathy of Jesus, 149.
  Synoptic Gospels, 33.

  Tasso, 81.
  Temperance, 38, 187, 191.
  Temptation, 208.
  Tennyson, 3, 39; wages, 161.
  Testament, New, 28, 30 f., 35, 57, 71.
  —— Old, 26, 45.
  Thanksgiving, 218.
  Theologia Moralis, 2.
  Titius, 134.
  Touche, E. D. La, 145.
  Troeltsch, 135, 151, 241.
  Truthfulness, 211.

Utilitarianism, 103 f., 114.

  Virtue. Virtues, 69, 21, 38 ff., 183 ff.
  Vitalism, 117, 120.
  Vocation, 154, 199 f.

  Wages, 161.
  Watson, 240.
  Wealth, 239.
  Weiss, Johannus, 134, 170.
  Welt-Anschauung, 19, 31.
  Wenley, 44.
  Wernle, 58, 134.
  Westcott, Bishop, 39.
  Westermarck, 221.
  Will, 12 ff., 82 f.
  Wisdom, 38, 43, 49, 187, 192.
  Wordsworth, 3, 39.
  Work, 208, 239.
  Worship, 217, 237.
  Wundt, 73, 78 f., 186, 213, 243.
  Wuttke, 13, 25, 217.