Criticisms of autonomous Christian ethics

• What do protestants believe

  We should only follow the bible’s teaching ‘sola scriptura’ - source of moral authority
• How is the autonomous ethics critiqued by the bible

  It is over - simplistic to suggest that Jesus’s teachings were only about love
• How is love seen as being subjective in autonomous Christian ethics

  Humans can justify acting as they wish - Bible is the only means of knowing how to behave morally
• what did Richard mouw say about autonomous Christian ethics

  ”Just because there is one biblical commandment (Law of love) does not rule out the possibility of other biblical commandments”
• What does acting out love give too much

  flexibility - Barclay points out that “man has not yet come of age“- we need some kind of guidance to keep society safe