Christian faith, and particularly Christian Ethics, must wrestle with the questions of novelty and continuity posed by Scripture's declaration that a new thing has occurred with the advent of Jesus Christ. The contrasting perspectives on the Law by Thomas Aquinas and Herman Bavinck focus these questions and suggest that forgiveness is an important point of reference for answering them. The importance of forgiveness in Christ's moral teaching suggests that Christian Ethics is marked out by a distinctive awareness of time. The impact of this reorganisation is already apparent in many places in the New Testament, including the posture we see taken towards political authority.

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宽恕与基督教伦理的新颖性

基督教信仰，尤其是基督教伦理学，必须努力解决圣经关于随着耶稣基督的降临发生了一件新事的声明所提出的新颖性和连续性的问题。托马斯·阿奎那 (Thomas Aquinas) 和赫尔曼·巴文克 (Herman Bavinck) 对律法的不同观点聚焦于这些问题，并表明宽恕是回答这些问题的重要参考点。宽恕在基督道德教导中的重要性表明，基督教伦理以对时间的独特意识为标志。这种重组的影响在新约的许多地方已经很明显，包括我们看到的对政治权威的态度。