Ethics and atonement

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Contents

I. ETHICS IN THE BIBLE, mPwWN

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- Religion in the Bible not opposed to Morality . . Morality in the New Testament as Self-Renunciation . . Its Foundation in the Covenant

I. Need of Further Consideration of Personality

2. Sin as the Breaking of the Right Relation between

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. Sin in the Bible; the Old Testament i Go erice

. Sin in the New Testament : Atonement or Reconciliation . Reconciliation, Forgiveness, and Punishment

. Contrition and its Awakening

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V. MEDIATION.

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. The Influence of Mind on Mind :

How can the Injured Person Influence the Mind of the Injurer? :

An Example. ;

Christ as the Mediator

The Place of Vicariousness in Christe Medivtion Note on New Testament Passages relating to the

Atonement

VI. ANGER AND FORGIVENESS.

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. The Fear of Divine Anger in Religion . . Modern Revolt against the Idea of Divine Rice

The Place of Divine Anger in the Bible

. The Place of Anger in Ethical Conduct

Positive and Negative Anger

. Anger and ‘‘ Repentance” in God . Christ and the Anger of God . Anger and Fatherhood .

VII. SYMBOLISM AND REALITY.

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I. 2. , Connexion between the Death and the Resurrection of

The Shedding of Blood upon the Cross References to the ‘‘ Blood” in the New Testament

Christ in the New Testament .

. Sacrifice in the Bible and in Ethnic Religions ; . The Two-fold Attitude to Sacrifice in the Bible

The Permanent and Universal Significance of Sacrifice

. The Metaphorical Character of Sacrificial Language . Sacrifice and Reconciliation Complementary

THE Gop-MAN.

. Christ ‘‘ One with” God and Man

Christ’s own Claim to Unity with God .

. Its Historical Reality and its Limits

. Impossibility of Rejecting the Claim

. Christ’s Claim to be the Son of Man

. The Holy Spirit and Christ’s Union with Man . . The Personal Character of this Union

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IX, PERSONALITY.

. Can these Claims be Philosophically Justified ? . . Transcendental and Common-sense Views of Personality . Personality as Inclusive

“* Great Personalities ”

The Supreme Personality

. Personality the One Medium of Divine Revelation . Personality the One Medium of Atonement

X. ATONEMENT AND THE RACE,

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. The Worth of Good Acts apart from Faith in Christ . Goodness of Act and Goodness of Character ‘ . Faith in Christ as Dependent on Human Presentation .

The Test of Goodness Primarily Moral and not Religious : Goodness and Chmaaunion with Ohree,

. The Pre-existence of Christ

. The Timelessness of Christ

. The Atonement as a Principle for all Time

. Faith in the Principle of the Atonement and in its

Embodiment The Ethical Necessity of the ‘Atoderent

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A FRESCO IN SAN MARCO

Oh ancient mystery of love unknown !

We, with the saint, would kneel and here adore, Dumb in our thanks, and humble evermore

For this dear love that left us not alone.

We wandered ’mid the thorns that made His crown ; He sought us in the wild ; with travail sore,

E’en there for us His kingly state He wore

Yet laid aside, for our dark sin to atone.

Our spirits find a home beneath His gaze,

Weary, estranged, and with much wandering blind, Lost in the night till He had brought us thence. Men’s searching only led us to a maze,

Darker for subtleties of human mind ;

Here we but love, and know our impotence.

K. L. L.