Selections from Friedrich Schleiermacher`s Christian Ethics

includes index and biblioraphy

Translator`s Introduction Cultural, Intellectual, and Theological Context 2 The Christian Ethics in Schleiermacher`s Philosophical System 7 The Christian Ethics in Schleiermacher`s Theological System 9 D\t Sdecnons ivom Christian Ethics 10 The Christian Ethics and Current Theological Ethics 12 1. General Introduction 19 [Christian Ethics in Relation to Philosophical Ethics and Dogmatics] 20 [The Character of Christian Ethics] 36 [The Three Forms of Action] 38 [Restoring Action and Broadening Action] 42 [Presentational Action] 44 PART ONE: EFFICACIOUS ACTION DIVISION l: RESTORING OR PURIFYING ACTION 2. Purifying or Restoring Action in the Christian Congregation 55 Introduction 55 Church Discipline 65 [Influencing the Flesh, Influencing the Spirit] 67 Church Betterment 73 3. Purifying Action in Which the Civil Element Is Co-constitutive 79 Introduction 79 Household Discipline 80 Purifying Action in the State 83 Introduction 83 1. Civil Criminal Justice 84 2. In the State, Restoring Action of Individuals upon the Whole 87 3. Purifying Action of One State upon Another 91 4. Purifying Action of the State upon Individuals Completely outside of the Bounds of Any State 94 DIVISION II: BROADENING ACTION 4. Introduction [to Broadening Action] 99 5. Broadening Action in the Church 107 Introduction 107 On Marriage 108 [On Divorce] 112 Concerning the Ecclesial Community in Relation to the Broadening Process 114 [Formation: Church as School] 118 6. Broadening Action in the State 123 [Transformation of the State by the Christian Principle] 129 [Mechanization in Labor] 132 Different Communities Must Work Together 133 PART TWO: PRESENTATIONAL ACTION 7. Introduction [to Presentational Action] 139 8. The Inner Sphere, or the Church 147 Worship in the Narrower Sense 156 Worship in the Broader Sense 162 9. The Outer or General Social Sphere 167 [Communal Formation of Persons and Nature] 167 [The Inner Constitution of Social Presentation] 173 10. Social Presentation in the Narrow Sense 177 Art in the Narrow Sense 178 Play as It Is Relatively Opposed to Art 181