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"Emotivist ethics presupposes compartmentalized lives and manipulative social relations, and modernity calls this manipulative mode "managerial effectiveness."" (p. 205)
— Sep 22, 2025 02:36AM
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"Esther in particular is portrayed in the Bible as the savior of her people, and thus as a type of Jesus – yet she is almost overlooked in many traditions and lectionaries." (p. 179)
— Sep 09, 2025 01:02PM
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"Appealing to a tradition that goes back to John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion (1560), the [Kairos] document argues that a tyrannical government loses the blessing of God and the right to expect its people's obedience. "A regime that has made itself the enemy of the people has thereby also made itself the enemy of God."" (p. 174)
— Aug 07, 2025 10:09AM
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"Niebuhr focused more explicitly on the question of sin, arguing that the doctrine of Original sin is the only empirically verifiable doctrine of the Christian faith. It is the limitation imposed by sin that keeps humanity in the finite and prevents it realizing its destiny in the infinite. Niebuhr regarded the agape love of Jesus as a religious ideal that could not be treated as a normative ethic." (p. 150)
— Mar 16, 2025 07:48AM
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"Plato regards evil as inherently unreasonable — that is, something one could never intend if wisdom were appropriately governing one's will and desire." (p. 66)
— Jun 06, 2024 06:49AM
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"Martin Luther (1483–1546), John Calvin (1509–64), and their contemporaries insisted that knowledge of God as creator, which is partly available through human observation and experience, is not to be confused with knowledge of God as redeemer, which is only available through revelation. But the supernatural knowledge of salvation available through Scripture does not, for them, invalidate the rather different natural knowledge available through reason." (p. 131)
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