Making Moral Choices: An Introduction to Christian Ethics

NOTES


Preface

1Elton Trueblood, A Place to Stand (New York: Harper & Row, 1969), p. 21.

2Francis A. Schaeffer, The God Who Is There (Downers Grove, Ill: InterVaristy Press, 1976), pp. 139-140.

3Ibid., p. 140.



Part One

1Leander S. Keyser, A Manual of Christian Ethics (Burlington, Iowa: The Lutheran Literary Board, 1926), p. 31.

2Blaise Pascal, Pensées, No. 252 (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1940), p. 73.

3Trueblood, p. 27.

4Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions (New York: Philosophical Library, 1957), p. 22.

5Ibid.

6Schaeffer, God Who Is There, p. 105.

7Ibid., p. 94.

8Ibid., p. 95.

9Ibid., pp. 87-88.

10Ibid., p. 89.

11Ibid.

12Ibid.

13“Why You Do What You Do,” Time, 1 August 1977, p. 54.

14Ibid.

15Ibid.

16John Kelly, “What Made You What You Are?” Mademoiselle, January 1983, p. 114.

17Francis A. Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live? (Old Tappan, N.J: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1976), p. 164.

18Francis A. Schaeffer, He Is There and He Is Not Silent (Wheaton, Ill: Tyndale House Publishers, 1972), pp. 99-100.

19Søren Kierkegaard,

20Schaeffer, God Who Is There. p. 65.

21Sartre, p. 13.

22Ibid., pp. 13-14.

23Ibid., p. 15.

24Ibid.

25Ibid., p. 16.

26Ibid., p. 90.

27Ibid., p. 17.

28Ibid., p. 48.

29Ibid., p. 49.

30Ibid., p. 22.

31Ibid., p. 19.

32Ibid., p. 23.

33Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York: Citadel Press, 1964), p. 9.

34Trueblood, p. 60.

35Carl H.F. Henry, Christian Personal Ethics (Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker Book House, 1982), p. 184.

36Ibid., p. 425.

37James Denney,

38Milton L. Rudnick, Christian Ethics for Today (Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker Book House, 1979), p. 51.

39Scaheffer, God Who Is There, pp. 158-159.

40Henry, p. 421.

41John Murray, The Epistle To the Romans (Grand Rapids, Mich: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1977), p. 35.

42Theodor von Haering, The Ethics of the Christian Life (London: Williams and Norgate, 1909), p. 174.

43J. Gresham Machen, The Origin of Paul’s Religion (Grand Rapids, Mich: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1973), p. 164.

44Herman Ridderbos, Paul: An Outline of His Theology trans. by John Richard De Witt (Grand Rapids, Mich: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1977), p. 274.

45Francis A. Schaeffer, True Spirituality (Wheaton, Ill: Tyndale House Publishers, 1976), p. 41.

46Henry, p. 429.



Part Two

1Sartre, p. 17.

2Henry, p. 438.

3Ridderbos, p. 304.

4Henry, p. 457.

5Ibid.

6Ridderbos, p. 315.

7Schaeffer, True Spirituality, p. 153.

8Ibid.

9Ibid.

10Ibid,. p. 148.

11Rudnick, p. 64.

12Henry, p. 222.

13Ibid., p. 340.

14Schaeffer, True Spirituality, p. 136.

15Rudnick, p. 61.

16Schaeffer, True Spirituality, p. 87.

17Ibid., p. 89.

18George MacDonald, Sir Gibbie (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1914), p. 137.

19Ann Austin, Sufism (unpublished), p. 3.

20William Barclay, The Letters of James and Peter (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1960), p. 273.

21Trueblood, p. 23.

22Ibid., p. 19.

23Ibid., 27.

24Austin, p. 3.

25Rudnick, p. 71.



Part Three

1Fletcher denies that his approach to ethics represents a “system,” but for the sake of clarity we will use that term when referring to his situation ethics.

2Rudnick, p. 19.

3Joseph Fletcher, Situation Ethics (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1975), p. 30.

4Ibid., p. 26.

5Henry, pp. 252-253.

6Fletcher, p. 97.

7Joseph Fletcher and John Warwick Montgomery, Situation Ethics: True or False (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1972), p. 52.

8Henry, p. 217.

9Ibid., p. 536.

10Ibid., p. 537.

11Fletcher’s lack of professionalism is also observable in other places in his book, such as on p. 13 where he allows an anecdote to set the tone for his entire treatise. In other places he demonstrates very unprofessional attitudes toward those whose opinions of biblical interpretations differ from his own, as on p. 70 where he paraphrases the conventional interpretation of Matthew 5:17-20 by saying, “‘Whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments’ shall be small potatoes in the Kingdom.“ Other instances abound throughout.

12On p. 135 of Situation Ethiocs Fletcher claims that love and grace are the same.

13Henry, p. 255.

14Ibid.

15Cited in Fletcher-Montgomery, p. 69.

16Fletcher-Montgomery, p. 46.

17Fletcher, p. 84.

18Fletcher-Montgomery, p. 46.

19Henry, p. 254.

20Ibid., p. 254.

21Rudnick, p. 51.

22Ridderbos, pp. 281-282.

23Fletcher, p. 103.

24Ibid., p. 115.

25Ibid., pp. 79, 108.

26Ibid., pp. 115-116.

27C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1973), p. 73.

28Henry, p. 358.

29Fletcher, pp. 21-22.

30Ibid., p. 23.

31Ibid., p. 136.

32Ibid.

33Ibid., p. 23.

34Ibid., p. 136.

35Ibid., p. 84.

36Ibid., p. 23.

37Fletcher-Montgomery, p. 74.

38cf. Fletcher, pp. 22, 34-35.

39Henry, p. 359.

40William Barclay, Ethics in a Permissive Society (New York: Harper & Row, 1971), p. 81.

41John Warwick Montgomery, The Suicide of Christian Theology (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1971), p. 64.

42Fletcher, p. 115.

43Ibid., pp. 124-125.

44Ibid., pp. 164-165.

45Ibid., p. 51.

46Paul Ramsey, Deeds and Rules in Christian Ethics (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1967), pp. 193-194.

47Fletcher, p. 74. It is interesting to note that Fletcher totally contradicts this statement on pp. 122-123.

48Ibid., p. 96.

49Ibid., p. 47.

50Ibid., p. 49.

51Ibid., p. 51.

52Ibid., p. 132; cf. para. 1.

53Ibid., p. 15.

54Ibid., p. 52.

55Ibid., p. 78.

56Ibid., p. 97.

57Ibid., p. 12.

58Fletcher-Montgomery, p. 55.

59Fletcher, pp. 155-156.

60Ibid., p. 81.

61Ibid., p. 77.

62cf Fletcher, pp. 97, 133.

63Fletcher-Montgomery, p. 51.



Part Four

1C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory (Grand Rapids, Mich: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1973), pp. 1ff.

2Henry, p. 434.

3Rudnick, p. 77.

4Sir Frederic Kenyon,

5cf. Genesis 25:26, Psalm 139_13-16, Ecclesiastes 11:5, Isaiah 49:1-5, Jeremiah 1:5, Luke 1:41.

6Henry, p. 427.

7J.B. Lightfoot, St. Paul’s Epistle to the Colossians and to Philemon (London: MacMillan, 1897), p. 214.

8Henry, p. 349.

9J.W. McGarvey, Commentary on Matthew-Mark (Delight, Ark: Gospel Light Publishing Company, 1875), p. 69.

10John W. Haley, An Examination of the Alleged Discrepancies of the Bible (Nashvillem, Tenn: Gospel Advocate Co., 1974), p. 65.

11Chuck Forsythe, “Social Drinking,” Gospel Advocate, 5 November 1981, p. 654.

12Henry, p. 430.

13Ibid., p. 423.

14Helmut Thielicke, The Ethics of Sex (Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker Book House, 1964), p. 257.



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