UTEP Philsophy of Religion and Ethics 1318 -- 03!!

"Fall 2007" (heh, heh)!

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Alasdair MacIntyre's:

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory ....

Chapter 13. "Medieval Aspects and Occasions"

Page 158-159

"That it [Stoicism] did not provide the only or even the most important model for those moralists who later were to make the concept of a moral law into the whole of or almost the whole of morality is due to the fact that another, even sterner morality of law, that of Judaism, converted the ancient world.

"It was of ocurse Judaism in the form of Christianity which thus prevailed.

"But those such as Nietzsche and the Nazis who have understood Christianity as essentially Judaic have in their hostility perceived a truth which has been disguised from many modern would - be friends of Christianity.

"For the Torah remains the law uttered by God in the New Testament as in the Old; and [in] the New Testament view Jesus as Messiah is, as the Council of Trent emphasised in a decree, lawgiver as well as a mediator to whom we owe obedience.

If, writes Karl Barth, agreeing in this at least for once with Trent, He were not the Judge, He would not be the Saviour (K.D., IV 1, p. 216)."