The doctrine of the Christian life

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Analytical outline -- Preface -- Part one : Introductory considerations. Introduction -- An ethical glossary -- Ethics and divine Lordship -- Part two : Non-Christian ethics. Lordship and non-Christian ethics -- Ethics and the world's religions -- The existential tradition -- The teleological tradition -- The Deontological tradition -- Part three : Christian ethical methodology. The organism of revelation -- Attributes of scripture -- The sufficiency of scripture -- Law in biblical ethics -- Applying the law -- Situation and norm -- Our ethical situation -- Redemptive history -- Our chief end -- Goodness and being -- Motives and virtues -- The new life as a source of ethical knowledge -- The organs of ethical knowledge -- Part four : The Ten Commandments. The First Commandment : no other gods -- The First Commandment : contemporary issues -- The Second Commandment : prohibited images -- The Second Commandment : regulating worship -- The Third Commandment : reverence for God's name -- the Fourth Commandment : views of Sabbath keeping -- The Fourth Commandment : Theology of the Sabbath -- The Fourth Commandment : The Sabbath in the New Covenant -- The Fifth Commandment : Honoring authorities -- The Fifth Commandment : family, church, and state -- The Fifth Commandment : man and woman -- The Fifth Commandment : equalities, racial and otherwise -- The Sixth Commandment : respecting life. The Sixth Commandment : war and punishment -- The Sixth Commandment : protecting life -- The Seventh Commandment : sexual purity -- The Seventh Commandment : divorce and remarriage -- The Seventh Commandment : reproduction -- The Eighth Commandment : respecting property -- The Eighth Commandment : wealth and poverty -- The Ninth Commandment : truthfulness -- The Tenth Commandment : the desires of the heart -- Part five : Christ and culture. What is culture? -- Christ and culture -- Christ and our culture -- Christians in our culture -- Culture in the church -- Part six : Personal spiritual maturity. Growing in grace -- Appendixes. Ethics and biblical events -- Zwingli and Reformed ethics -- Schleiermacher and Protestant ethics -- Gentleness in the pastorate -- In defense of Christian activism -- Is natural revelation sufficient to govern culture? -- Review of R.J. Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law -- Review of Peter Richardson, Paul's Ethic of Freedom -- Review of Margaret Howe, Women in Church Leadership -- Review of Hessel Bouma III et al., Christian Faith, Health, and Medical Practice -- Review of R.F.R. Gardner, Abortion : the Personal Dilemma -- Review of Beverly Wildung Harrison, Our Right to Choose : Toward a New Ethic of Abortion.