Skrifgesag en skrifberoep in die etiek

Abstract

The issue that is dealt with in this paper centres on the ways in which the centuries-old Biblical principles and norms in ethics should be applied after twenty and more centuries within a totally different, modern cultural situation. This issue has become especially topical since 1970 when Kuitert, in his article Het Schriftberoep in de Ethiek, maintained that the Scriptural injunction in practice seemed to be a monumentally arbi­ trary injunction.