God, the Situation Ethicist / Johnsen, Carsten / (PB//B+/USED)

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Have you heard the old story about the New Morality? It has fantastic things to tell about Legal Abortion, Innocent Prevarication, Legitimate Killing, Sacrificial Adultery. Still, the most intriguing part of the story may have been jealously withheld from you. Now a fearless author opens it all up and pours it all out.

You yourself may have asked the angry question: "Is God the great Master Situationist of all times? Or why, otherwise, does He, according to time-honored records, kill more men than anybody else? Why in the world does God treat His own rigid commandments with such astonishing situational arbitrariness?

Problem-haunted truth-seekers have asked these questions from times immemorial. In his present book, God the Situation Ethicist, Carsten Johnsen, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, Andrews University, Michigan, answers boldly: "Yes, God is the Situation Ethicist par excellence. But He is also the only One who has the perfect right to be a situationist.

Why? The writer gives his rather unexpected answers to a whole series of crucial questions regarding the meaningfulness of Christian Ethics in the light of Biblical realism. With undaunted directness he makes available to you the part of the story you were never told about either God or Situation Ethics.

CONTENTS 

Introduction 1

Man--The "Autonomous One" 3

What is the Color of a Lie? 4

Coming to Close Quarters in the Ethics Battle 9

What Light Does the New Testament Concept of Metanoia Shed upon the Crucial Question: What Makes Human Actions Good or Evil?  17

Is the Liberal Existentialist a Representative of a "Finer Ethics"? 19

The Stupendous Logical Consequence of Realizing What God's Laws Actually Represent According to the Deepest Ethical Axioms of Radical Christian Realism 23

Where the Casuist Comes Short, How Much Does the Situationist Really Know about the Situation?  26

An Informative Experiment of Thought: Suppose Certain of the Bible's Outstanding Characters of Faith had Revealed Themselves as Enthusiastic Fans of the New Morality?  31

Eve, the First Situation Ethicist on This Earth 34

What if Job Had Been an Unbending Situation Ethics Man? 36

Even Noble Biblical Patriarchs May at Times Yield to the Temptation of Adopting a Situationist Standpoint. The Bible Does Not Gloss Over the Fact  40

But What Now, If the Choice of Such Radical Obedience Means Instant Death?  46

The Question That Should Be Asked and the One That Should Not in Order to Find the Way of Correct Actions in Life  48

What Comes First in Man's Life: His Relationship to God or His Relationship to His Neighbor?  52

Preparing for an All-out War Against Situationism  55

"Sacrificial Adultery" 57

A Remarkable "Reductio Ad Absurdum" in Situation Ethics  60

Conclusion of the "Love" Story  62

Was the Prophet Daniel a Stickler to Principles in the Derogatory Sense of That Term? Does the Problem of Knowledge (Epistemology) Inevitably Turn into a Problem of Ethics and Moral Responsibility? 75

Do Some Suffer from Bad Temper and Fits of Outrage against Neighbors "Exactly Like Other Suffer from an Attack of Scarlet Fever"?  78

A Warning against Pulling the Lions' Tail When You Get into the Lions' Den  83

Is Sin in All Respects "Just Another Illness"?  86

The New Spectacular Revolution in American Psychiatry  90

Remarkable Anti-Hazard Trends in the Ethics of Christian Realism  93

A Fair Analysis of the Case at Hand  99

Your Chance of Winning--Versus the Lottery's Chance  105

Is Chance Play with Money Morally Defensible?  112

There is Always a Chance That We Might Win if We Gamble; Can We Take That Risk? 115

Is Money a Real Value?  119

The Work and the Wages--Which is the Means and which is the End?  124

Lot Casting in Your Personal Life and in that of the Church  127

A Farcical Account Inspired by Modern Situation Ethics  134

An Outspoken Dialogue between Reader and Writer  138

1. The case of a conception after a crime of rape  140

2. The case of the birth endangering the mother's life  141

3. The mother attracts an illness during her pregnancy  143

A Frustrated Listener Demands Arguments Right to the Point  145

The Bible's View of When Human Life Starts Functioning in a Fully Acceptable Way  156

The Historical Dramas of Entire Nations Have Begun Already There--Deep, Deep Down in the Obscure Recesses of the Mother's Womb  161

The Mother's Destiny Intimately Joined to that of the Sprouting Child and Still they are Separate Individuals  162

General Conclusion  163

Postscript  163

The Ambiguous Case of Public Debating Parades  165

Who are the Real Teachers of a Pitiless Brand of Ethics?  174

Is the Non-believer Excluded from Realizing a Genuine Pattern of Heartfelt Goodness in Ethical Acts?  181

A Plausible Explanation Fully Sufficient to Account for the Strange Fact that True Goodness Still Exists on Earth 185

Summa Summarum  189

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