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The moral vision of the New Testament : community, cross, new creation : a contemporary introduction to New Testament ethics / Richard B. Hays. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, (c)1996.Edition: first editionDescription: xv, 508 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780060637965
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS2545.H425.M673 1996
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Contents:
Paul: the Koinonia of his sufferings -- Developments of the Pauline tradition -- The gospel of Mark: taking up the cross -- The gospel of Matthew: training for the kingdom of heaven -- Luke-acts: liberation through the power of the spirit -- The gospel and Epistles of John: loving one another -- Excursus: the role of "the historical Jesus" -- Revelation: resisting the beast -- The synthetic task: finding coherence in the moral vision of the new testament -- Three focal images: community, cross, new creation -- The Hermeneutical task: the use of the new testament in Christian ethics -- How do ethicists use scripture? Diagnostic questions -- Five representative Hermeneutical strategies -- How shall we use the texts? Normative proposals -- The pragmatic task: living under the word--test cases -- Violence in defense of justice -- Divorce and remarriage -- Homosexuality -- Anti-Judaism and ethnic conflict -- Abortion.
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The descriptive task: visions of the moral life in the new testament -- Paul: the Koinonia of his sufferings -- Developments of the Pauline tradition -- The gospel of Mark: taking up the cross -- The gospel of Matthew: training for the kingdom of heaven -- Luke-acts: liberation through the power of the spirit -- The gospel and Epistles of John: loving one another -- Excursus: the role of "the historical Jesus" -- Revelation: resisting the beast -- The synthetic task: finding coherence in the moral vision of the new testament -- Three focal images: community, cross, new creation -- The Hermeneutical task: the use of the new testament in Christian ethics -- How do ethicists use scripture? Diagnostic questions -- Five representative Hermeneutical strategies -- How shall we use the texts? Normative proposals -- The pragmatic task: living under the word--test cases -- Violence in defense of justice -- Divorce and remarriage -- Homosexuality -- Anti-Judaism and ethnic conflict -- Abortion.

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