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Often appears with: justice as a virtue · providence and divine governance · moral precepts in old law · kingdom of god · infinite moral progress · hope of happiness beyond this life · friendship with god · friendship and loyalty · fate, destiny, and necessity · conversion and faith · christian ethics
Usually: argument (2) · detachment (1) · praise (1)
“Now since likeness is the reason of love, according to Ecclus. 13:19: "Every beast loveth its like"; there cannot possibly be any friendship of man to God, Who is supremely good, unless man become good.” Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) · insight
Kant claims Christianity uniquely satisfies practical reason by uniting the moral law’s holiness with hope for happiness in an endless duration, forming the kingdom of God as harmony between nature and morality.
with one's own personal worth, thus including it in the consciousness of being morally minded, in which they Might have been sufficiently refuted by the voice of their own nature. The doctrine of Christianity, * even if we do not yet consider it as a religious doctrine, gives, touching this point, a conception of the summum bonum (the kingdom of God), which alone satisfies the strictest demand of practical reason. T…
In Article 2 of Question 99, Aquinas argues that the Old Law includes moral precepts, since friendship with God requires human goodness and holiness, citing commandments like “not kill” and “not steal.”
on Heb. 12:11: "Now all chastisement (*disciplina*)," etc., says: "Discipline is an exercise in morals by means of difficulties." Therefore the Law which was given by God comprised moral precepts. *I answer that,* The Old Law contained some moral precepts; as is evident from Ex. 20:13, 15: "Thou shalt not kill," "Thou shalt not steal." This was reasonable: because, just as the principal intention of human law is to …