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Christian Ethics
Chapter 1
1. The term "Christian ethics," means a systematic study of the
way of life exemplified and taught by Jesus, applied to the manifold problems and decisions of human existence. True/False
2. From the early days of Christianity to the present, various courses have been followed with regard to the
relations of Christian ethics to moral philosophies stemming from other sources. True/False
3.. Agape love means, rather, an uncalculating, outgoing spirit of loving concern which finds expression in
deeds of service without limit. True/False
4. _________ by finding points of contact with the non-________ world, it has tended to ________ what is distinctive
in Christianity in order to stress _________ ground.
5. Who said, "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?"
6. ________ ethics is on _____ _______ if it either sells its ________ by accommodation
to secular ________ or refuses to respect and learn from the moral wisdom of the ages.
7. The ethics of the Church, and individually of the churches, stands midway between the ethics of Christendom
and the ethics of the gospel as it comes to us in Jesus Christ. True/False
8. The Church is made up of infallible human beings. These infallible human persons "who profess and call
themselves Christians," True/False
9. Without the Bible, it is very possible that there would be today no churches, no Christendom, no knowledge
of Christ. True/False
10. Christian ethics is defined as, the systematic study of the way of life set forth by Jesus Christ, applied
to the daily demands and decisions of our personal and social existence. True/False
Chapter 2:
The Covenant, the Law, and the Prophets
1. Grave errors of ethical interpretation of the Bible have often resulted from lack of perspective.
True/False
2. It is now commonly believed that Israel’s faith was not fully monotheistic before the fourth century
B.C. True/False
3. The Old Testament is a covenant of merit. True/False
4. There were two basic tests of being a Jew. One was circumcision; the other was keeping of the law. True/False
5. The ceremonial code (the so-called J Decalogue) is found in Exod. 44 True/False
6. The ________ of Amos is ________ by the ______ of God’s tender _____
for his erring people,
7. The statement, "The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath" is found in (Mark 2:27.) True/False
8. ________ ought to ________when "doing things right" in the ______ becomes a substitute for
_____________.
9. In everything the prophets said, they spoke to the Past situations. True/False
10. He took the moral _________ of Israel and _________ it into something so _________,
so compelling, that it became new.
Chapter 3
The Ethics of Jesus
1. Jesus did not "just happen."
He came as the gift of God to all mankind. True/False
2. Jesus ________ an ethic completely _______ with his ________.
3. Jesus came to bear truth which had nothing to do with religion. True/False
4. The term "sons of" was a familiar Semitic expression to denote likeness of character. True/False
5. Jesus set forth a _____ _______ of the demands of the ____-centered life.
6. Jesus declared the supreme worth of every person to God. True/False
7. The central ______ of Jesus was ____ _______ of _____.
8. The Kingdom means the sovereign, righteous rule of God in a redeemed society. True/False
9. Jesus _______ the _______ of ___ as the _______ good, worth any cost.
10. Eschatology is the doctrine of what?
11. What 3 words would be sufficient evidence that he did not regard The Kingdom as having fully come?
12. Jesus believed the methods of love would always "work" in human society. True/False
Chapter 4
Ethical Perspectives of the Early Church
1. As a Jew trained in the ________ tradition, the ____
meant to Paul _______ the law of his ______.
2. Agape is the word most often used for love in Paul’s letters as well as in the Gospels. True/False
3. As to Paul the ____ ______ and the ______ of Christ are terms used ______________,
4. In ________, Paul _______ that Christians though under _____ still ______.
5. When Gentiles who have not the ___ do by nature what the ___ requires, they are a law to themselves, even
though they do not have the ___
6. The Church is the "______ of ___" (Gal. 6:16);
7. Who were to be "_____ of the _______" (Heb. 6:17; Gal. 3:29) sharing the _______ of Christ’s victory
in the _______ that was to come?
8. New Testament society has a positive side with no negative. True/false
9. The gospel of ________ through _____ put iron in their _____, and nothing could daunt them in their _______
to it.
10. There can be no ______ ________ between an _________ and a social gospel.
Chapter 5:
God, Sin, and Christian Character
1. What percentage of Americans when polled said they believed in
God?
2. The _____ charge against the ______ is that it is full of __________, less sensitive to _____ need than
many outside it.
3. Where are Christian virtues epitomized?
4. Christian character, though not flawless in any person, is a self-validating witness to the power of what?
5. Look in any __________ of the _____, and it becomes ________ that one of the _____ which appears most frequently
is "___."
6. What happens when one forms his opinion only by the standards of his group and then calls it the will of
God for all,
7. Redemption is granted when one becomes aware of his ___________ and self-_____________, _______ in ________
and turns to ______ in faith.
8. Sin, then, is ____-____ and ____-____________ with regard to both ___ and other _______
9. According to the writer, wow many people die in traffic accidents each year?
10. What did the the medieval Church announced as the seven deadly sins?
11. ____ in the form of overt _____________ or, as Jesus saw it, the _______ look and the impure _______
12. What is the message of Good Friday and of Easter, and of our total Christian faith?
Chapter 6
Duties to Self and Society
1. What does the word caritas
mean?
2. Who's position is this, " the making of self-realization the Christian’s ethical ideal."
3. To the _________, God is the ultimate ______ of ________, as his will is the final ________ of what is
good.
4. The first fact to be noted is that within the _________ of _____________ relations lies man’s greatest
________ for self-giving love and his worst ___________ to self-love.
5. Where in the Bible this verse, "Therefore let any one who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall"?
1 Cor. 10:12
6. This _____ dullness, insofar as it is ___________, is sin.
7. This entails that, not ___________ but ______, one must sometimes ______ to serve for the sake of a larger
_______.
8. Social sin, like any other sin, is compounded of attitudes and acts contrary to the will of God. ____
9. We must _______ by God’s _____ to "hate the ___ but love the ______,"
10. What is always our ultimate norm ____.
Chapter 7:
Marriage and the Family
1. The ___ impulse is a biological impulse, ________ for ___________ and essential
to it. without which neither ______ nor human life would be ___________.
2. Jesus did, like Paul, advocate celibacy as a higher state
than marriage. TorF
3. The ______ to Jesus was a ____ relationship, ________ a holy ____ not lightly to be broken.
4. It is generally believed among _____________ that ________, rather than promiscuity, is the ______________
form of domestic relation in _________ societies.
5. Most Protestant communions hold marriage to be a sacrament in the same sense that baptism and the Lord’s
Supper are. TorF
6. Unless one is _________ able to pledge permanent ________ in days that are "for _____," "for ______," and
"in ________," he ought not to marry, and it is only _____ love that makes this possible.
7. There should be ______ sharing, family work ________, family ___.
8. The sex _______ between a ___ and a _____ was instituted by ___ for marriage and for ________ only; any
other use of it is a _________.
9. Divorce is ____________ when __________ is not intended in the first _____.
10. Only when it is clear that its sacredness has been irrevocably shattered should divorce be contemplated.
TorF
Chapter 8:
The Ethics of Economic Life
1. It is to ____, _____, ______, and _____ that we are most apt to turn
for the biblical foundations of social and economic justice.
2.
"You ______ serve God and ______."
3. The _____ note in the _________ understanding of ________ possessions is _________.
4. Personal _________ is _________ for ________ motivation.
5. In judging what one ought to receive or possess, two simple rules may suggest the answer as well as anything
more complex, what are they?
6. What is the simplest answer to why does anyone work?
7. Children naturally prefer play to work, and this tendency if uncorrected carries over into adult life.
True or False
8. One’s daily work ought not be viewed as a divine calling. True or False
9. Who Said, "If any one will not work, let him not eat"
10. So long as one’s job is an honest, serviceable one in which one is doing the best he can, it is
a divine calling. True or False
11. no system _______ by man is completely ________, or can be as long as _____ _____ and sin persist
12. Yet it is rooted in the _________ gospel that all ___ are of _______ and equal worth in the sight
of ___.
Chapter 9:
Christianity and the Race Problem
1. When we are given _________ insight
the whole pattern of ______ _____________ is seen as an unutterable offence against ___,
2. The ________ of all persons before ___ was basic to the _______ of _____.
3. Who said, "Truly I perceive that God shows no partiality"
4. Confront an adult with the fact of his race prejudice, and he will do one of three things. What are they?
5. Racial prejudice is, first of all, a _____________ factor, rooting in __________ _______ and pride and
the pervasive human tendency to _______ the _________.
6. What is one of the first steps in overcoming racial tension?
7. Racism imperils the peace of the world. True or False
8. Where are two of the most troubled areas of the earth?
9. Race discrimination hurt those who are its recipients, but those who practice it become also its victims.
True or False
10. Not until the ______ both ________ and _________ such Christian _________ will it touch the ______ of
the race question.
11. the house of ___ is a place of ______ and service for all peoples and the ______ of ___ cannot sanction
______________ at any point.
12. Who Said, We must use the weapon of love. We must have compassion and understanding for those who hate
us?
13. Finally, the total problem must be lifted into the realm of--
Chapter 10:
The Christian Conscience and the State
1. What is a State?
2. No nation can be a State unless it can exercise authority over its own people. True or False
3.This writer says, No literature of any people reflects a keener concern for social righteousness than is found in the
writings of who?
4. Yet before the _______ Ruler of the _____, every political State must be ______ defective, and
all Christian ________ must seek to bring their State more nearly into _______ with what is believed to be _____
will for human life.
5. A situation is just when a person, or a group of persons, has what he (or they) ought to have. True or False
6. We are not in fact the present recipients of centuries of concern for justice in the laws that govern a civilized society.
True or False
7. Physical _____ must always be _________; it should be used as little as possible, and always under _________
8. __________ are obliged to see the ______ through by sharing their _________, moral, and economic _________.
9. Democracy as an ideal is to be identified with equality, although it is not closely related to it. True or False
10.On rare occasions, a Christian may even feel called upon to defy the civil law for the sake of the higher law of God.True
or False
Chapter 11:
War, Peace, and International Order
1. When Jesus said, "Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword" (Matt. 26:52),
Jesus was probably speaking of international. True or False
2. God loves all humanity but hates the atheists. True or False
3. In what year was the first Hague Peace Conference was held?
4. Who said this? We now live in the age of the hydrogen bomb. Therefore, we must explore every possible means of ensuring
collective security, apart from the use of military power.
5. Why has America’s loss of prestige and friendship in the Orient be lost?
6. Racial injustices and tensions are much less in the Christian Churchthen any where else. True or False
7. __________ who believe in __________ based upon them have done much to _________ our world
8. It is a common caricature of pacifism to ask this question, what is the question?
9. The possibility of imposing law by force is based upon the superior power of what?
10. What is the dilemma of the nonpacifist Christian?
Chapter 12:
Christian Ethics and Culture
1. In the broader meaning of the term, culture is synonymous with what?
2. In whichever sense the word "culture" is used, it is a __________ _____ __________.
3. The American Christian of today lives in a _________ _________ but largely _______ _______.
4. This struggle to ___________ ________ faith with culture is not _________ but has lasted through twenty _________ of
Christian history.
5. The defenders of traditional Christian belief have had to make more adjustments than have the exponents of the scientific
spirit. T or F
6. Who the are serious rivals of Christian faith in the modern world.
7. A second sphere in which the claims of Christ and of culture both converge and diverge is ___.
8. No ______ in any age ever had so much that was ____-_______ as well as ______.
9. Who intended, rightly, to preserve freedom of religion?
10. Who does this writer say "hold the world together"?
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