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Current Theology Apologetics

Current Theology Apologetics CURRENT THEOLOGY APOLOGETICS CHRIST LEGATE TO MANKIND. CHRIST AND ETHICS. The gist of the modernistic view of the ethics taught by Christ may be summed up in the words of a book of 1940: The liberal social Christianity "makes a deliberate adaptation of a gospel originally cast in an apocalyptic frame­ work in order to render more authentically for a changed historical situation its message of human redemption. For liberal Christianity can see no necessary connection whatever between the absolute ethic of Jesus and the particular apocalyptic framework in which it was presented. The timeless truth must be lifted out of a setting that definitely dated it and made relevant to a world to which apocalyptic thinking is alien." (F. Ernest Johnson, in The Social Gospel Re-examined, p. 110.) Further notice of this work may be found among the Book Reviews. It is well known that the so-called Interimsethik of Christ became popular shortly after 1900 because of the writings, especially of Johann Weiss and Albert Schweitzer, concerning the alleged eschatological views of Christ concerning His Kingdom. It was a corollary that the ethics of Christ were for the interim—brief—between His preaching and the end of the world. Hence http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Theological Studies SAGE

Current Theology Apologetics

Theological Studies , Volume 2 (1): 27 – Feb 1, 1941
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CURRENT THEOLOGY APOLOGETICS CHRIST LEGATE TO MANKIND. CHRIST AND ETHICS. The gist of the modernistic view of the ethics taught by Christ may be summed up in the words of a book of 1940: The liberal social Christianity "makes a deliberate adaptation of a gospel originally cast in an apocalyptic frame­ work in order to render more authentically for a changed historical situation its message of human redemption. For liberal Christianity can see no necessary connection whatever between the absolute ethic of Jesus and the particular apocalyptic framework in which it was presented. The timeless truth must be lifted out of a setting that definitely dated it and made relevant to a world to which apocalyptic thinking is alien." (F. Ernest Johnson, in The Social Gospel Re-examined, p. 110.) Further notice of this work may be found among the Book Reviews. It is well known that the so-called Interimsethik of Christ became popular shortly after 1900 because of the writings, especially of Johann Weiss and Albert Schweitzer, concerning the alleged eschatological views of Christ concerning His Kingdom. It was a corollary that the ethics of Christ were for the interim—brief—between His preaching and the end of the world. Hence

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