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JUDEO-CHRISTIAN ETHIC

Sociologyindex, Sociology Books 2011

Judeo-Christian Ethic or Judaeo-Christian Ethic refers to broad moral precepts associated with the Jewish and Christian religions, like the idea of responsibility for one's own actions and of redemption of the criminal or sinner through just punishment and repentance.

There is a long history of the Church in Europe enforcing a type of Judeo-Christian ethic upon combat, since all parties shared a similar religion. The modern rules for war are part of a Judeo-Christian ethic which dates back centuries. The Jews, for instance, were not permitted by God to rape their captives, in stark contrast to other armies of the time. The idea of protecting innocents in combat dates back to Jeremiah, where God told the prophet: "In those days they shall no longer say: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.' But every one shall die for his own sin; each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge," Jeremiah 31:29,30, RSV.

Leadership, Decision Making, and the Judeo-Christian Ethic
Corporate Author : ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
Heim, Robert L.
Abstract : This study investigates whether the military decision-making qualities, as framed by the professional Army ethic, are endorsed by the Judeo- Christian values system. The author chose the four values of the professional Army ethic (loyalty, duty, selfless service, and integrity) as a research framework. The author investigated a sample of literature on leadership ethics, decision making, and Just War 'Theory in search of a group of decision-making qualities implied by, and resident within, the professional Army ethic. Twelve qualities were uncovered. The author also sampled and analyzed Judeo-Christian literature on leadership, ethics, morality, and decision making. Further, the author considered the lives of five outstanding biblical leaders from within Judeo-Christian history. Joshua, David, Daniel, Nehemiah, and Jesus of Nazareth to determine if the qualities of decision making they manifested in their lives endorsed the general qualities of decision making as framed by the professional Army ethic. The analysis revealed that the four values of the professional Army ethic are easily contained in the Judeo-Christian values system. The author concluded that the Judeo-Christian ethic failed to endorse one quality of the professional Army ethic, partially endorsed one quality, and fully endorsed ten qualities. Decision making, Ethics, Professional Army Ethic Judeo-Christian, Values, Morals. - stinet.dtic.mil

Informing Americans on Violence - The Media's Role 
Journal: Public Relations Review Volume:8 Issue:1 Dated:special issue (Spring 1982) Pages:35-39
Abstract: Violence in America stems from (1) diversity, which contributes to alienation instead of community; (2) individualism, which fosters a competitiveness that identifies 'winners' and 'losers,' with rage and despair fostered among the 'losers;' (3) racism, whose brutalizing distortion of the rights of blacks has a continuing legacy in the alienation and violence of inner cities; and (4) the frontier legacy of violence as the means of establishing dominance. The root cause of violence, however, is the deterioration of the Judeo-Christian ethic that has formed the moral consensus for behavior. This ethic mandated internalized personal and social controls that fostered a sense of duty regularly performed through self-denial and compassion for the weak and oppressed. Our value system is now based primarily on self-fulfillment, which so easily slides into selfishness, hedonism, and materialism. In the absence of strong moral influences to condition and constrain behavior, the only recourse is the use of police power. The news media portrays the violent behavior spawned out of moral decay, and the entertainment media reflect and reinforce the values that either foster violence or fail to hold it in check. Ideally, those responsible for the entertainment media should adopt a higher vision for their role, but unfortunately, leaders in the industry are also driven by a competitive ethic of materialism which holds little commitment to the values required to halt the spiral of moral decay. - ncjrs.gov/app/publications/Abstract.aspx?id=87627

Abortion, capital punishment and the Judeo-Christian ethic.Cameron P.
PMID: 11650522 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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