Cover i
Half Title Page ii
Title Page iii
Copyright Page iv
Dedication v
Editor’s Preface ix
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction to Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Ethics by Dirk van Keulen and John Bolt xxi
Introduction 1
§1 Historical Overview of Christian Ethics 2
§2 Terminology 17
§3 Division and Organization of Ethics 23
§4 Foundation and Method of Ethics 25
Book I Humanity before Conversion 31
1. Essential Human Nature 33
§5 Human Beings, Created in God’s Image 35
§6 The Content of Human Nature 44
§7 Human Relationships 49
2. Humanity under the Power of Sin 77
§8 The Devastation of the Image of God in Humanity 78
§9 The Organizing Principle and Classification of Sins 100
3. The Self against the Neighbor and God 117
§10 Sins of Egoism in the Narrow Sense 118
§11 Sins against the Neighbor 129
§12 Sins against God 139
4. The Fallen Image of God 147
§13 The Image of God in Fallen Human Beings 148
5. Human Conscience 165
§14 The Conscience 167
6. The Sinner and the Law 215
§15 The Law 216
§16 Natural Morality 228
Book II Converted Humanity 237
7. Life in the Spirit 239
§17 The Nature of the Spiritual Life 240
§18 The Origin of the Spiritual Life 253
§19 The First and Basic Activity of the Spiritual Life 264
8. Life in the Spirit in the Church’s History 273
§20 Mysticism, Pietism, and Methodism 275
9. The Shape and Maturation of the Christian Life 315
§21 The Shape of the Christian Life: The Imitation of Christ 317
§22 The Growth of the Spiritual Life 341
10. Persevering in the Christian Life 361
§23 Security and Sealing 363
11. Pathologies of the Christian Life 415
§24 Diseases of the Spiritual Life and Their Roots 417
12. Restoration and Consummation of the Christian Life 461
§25 Means of Restoration 462
§26 Consummation of the Spiritual Life; Meditation on Death 493
Bibliography 495
Selected Scripture Index 528
Name Index 541
Subject Index 554
Back Cover 565