Biblical Perspectives, Vol. 1 No. 2, 1993.
Original scientific paper
Revelation and Ethics: Question of Distance
Miroslav M. Kiš
; Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, USA
Abstract
The main thesis of this essay is that revelation is not irrelevant
nor without authority for the human, sinful condition because of its
supernatural origin. The author first looks at the relationship between
theology and ethics, and the problem of distance. After that
he examines the way that Reinhold Niebuhr and Carl F. H. Henry
have related revelation and Christian ethics. Finally he draws some
conclusions useful for the task of making ethical decisions: Both,
Niebuhr and Henry stress the absolute requirements of moral ideal;
yet both (for different reasons) consider this ideal impossible. The
result is similar: the tension is lowered and moral arrows do not
fly. The solution is not to reduce the tension but to increase our
faith in the competence of the Holy Spirit. In Christian Ethics the
problem of distance from Christian Theology is only apparent, not
real.
Keywords
Bible; revelation; ethics; teology; R. Niebuhr; C.F.H. Henry
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89840
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Publication date:
15.12.1993.
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