an Ethics will speak of God’s action. It will speak of the groanings of creation and of the firstfruits in whom these groanings reach articulacy, but it will speak of them as moments in the purpose and work of God. Its discipline will be theological — not disregarding the contributions of philosophical analysis and phenomenological interpretation, but stepping beyond them to reach decisions which philosophy quite properly holds back from, decisions authorized and required by the Spirit who searches the deep things of God. In the second place we must add that it will speak of our human life and
...more
