{Love and Law}[3rd August 1989]

[Redbook6:194][19890803:1307]{Love and Law}[3rd August 1989]

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‘Christian ethics has historically stressed both the concept of law and the concept of love: in natural law ethics, for instance, love is recognised as the highest virtue; and in the Bible love for God produces obedience to his law. Emphasis on the I-Thou character of religious and interpersonal experience has given new prominence to love, producing an ethic, based on Agape, or spiritual love, which admits no other moral obligation than the prudent maximisation of love, defined in Existentialist terms as personal fulfilment through an I-Thou relationship. The result is that, instead of focussing on ethical duties (deontology), Christian morality consists of acts determined by their consequences (“act-Utilitarianism”). Traditionally, Christian ethics has traced man’s duties back to God the Creator and held man responsible to God for the consequences of his acts. Agapistic ethics, however, does not consistently develop this relationship.’*

[Text extracted from ms diagram reproduced above:]

				C
			(Spirit)	(Son)	(Father)	(In middle	at depth)
		R~	(at centre)\	→	Prudence	S~
		Simplification		|		Ordination	(=Command)
		\		←		/	(Lawyers)
			Love		Harmony
G~	(Virtues)		–	+	–			M~
		/				\
				|

(per previous attributions)

*E[ncylopaedia] B[ritannica] 16:342

[Underlining per ms, not original text. The photocopied text also includes a section/part-section on [Christian] philosophy of history]

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