Interimsethikn.

1910 W. Montgomery tr. A. Schweitzer Quest Hist. Jesus xix. 352 What this repentance, supplementary to the law, the special ethic of the interval before the coming of the kingdom (Interimsethik) is,..He explains in the Sermon on the Mount.

1915 A. Hall Jesus & Christianity in 20th Cent. iii. 43 Schweitzer..perceives the difficulty, and endeavours to overcome it by describing this side of the message and character of Jesus as ‘the ethic of the interim’.]

1918 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics X. 733/1 Many NT students argue that the ethics of Jesus is conditional, an Interimsethik, and was proclaimed in indissoluble connexion with the eschatological expectation of a state of perfect blessedness to be supernaturally brought about.

1946 R. A. Knox Epist. & Gospels 270 But Matthew makes it more plain than Luke that we are not merely dealing with what Schweitzer called an interimsethik, a scale of values only appropriate to a world which is shortly to go up in smoke.

1947 G. Seaver Albert Schweitzer ii. xiii. 183 Our Lord's teaching was an interim-ethic, that is to say it was conditioned by His conviction of the nearness of the supernatural Kingdom.

1960 N. Sykes Sixty Years Since 7 It was in the light of this eschatology that all the ethical teaching of the Gospels must be understood..and the whole was an Interimsethik.

1961 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Feb. p. x/3 He also points out..that their advocacy of toleration was intended only as an Interimsethik, until reconciliation..had been attained.

1961 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Feb. p. xii/3 Schweitzer's thorough-going eschatology and his consequent estimate of the ethical teaching of Jesus as Interimsethik.

1964 M. Ratter Schweitzer 116 The teaching of Jesus is seen to be an ‘Interim Ethic’.