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Brief and non-exhaustive use of theologian Donald G. Bloesch from Doctoral thesis.
Ethics and Morality
Donald G. Bloesch
(1987) explains that the knowledge of God leading to theological dogmatics
should be for the sake of ethical service for God.[1]
Dogmatic theology should not exist for
the sake of itself.[2]
He mentions that followers are to
be holy by being separated by God from the world system, in a nearness to God.[3] Bloesch deduces this is not the same as ‘moral
uprightness’[4]
but consists of followers living in Christ.[5] He
notes that in every human system of ethics[6]
there is demonstrated a human flaw that prohibits people from fulfilling a
moral requirement.[7]
In contrast, in the context
of atonement and justice[8] in God’s holiness, God forgives
and forbears and demonstrates his love.[9]
BLOESCH, DONALD G. (1987) Freedom for Obedience, San Francisco,
Harper and Rowe Publishers.
BLOESCH, DONALD G. (1996) ‘Sin, The
Biblical Understanding of Sin’, in Walter A. Elwell (ed.), Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, Grand Rapids, Baker Books.
[1] Bloesch (1987:
12).
[2] Christians should
live in service to their neighbours. Bloesch (1987: 12).
[3] Bloesch (1987: 211).
[4] Bloesch (1987:
211).
[5] Bloesch (1987: 211).
[6] Bloesch (1987:
34). Bloesch is discussing ethical
systems and not a defence or theodicy, but still the concepts of human nature
and actions relate.
[7] Bloesch (1987:
34).
[8] Bloesch (1987:
97).
