Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.
The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.
The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human person, male and female, is created in the image of God.
Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.
Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.