Theology and ethics in Paul / [print]
Victor Paul Furnish ; new introduction by Richard B. Hays.
- Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, (c)2009.
- xix, 300 pages ; 23 cm.
- The New Testament library .
- New Testament library. .
The sources of Paul's ethical teaching. The Old Testament and Judaism ; The Hellenistic world ; The teaching of Jesus -- The Pauline exhortations. The use of traditional material ; The assimilation of traditional material ; The varied modes of exhortation ; The problem of "kerygma" and "didache" -- The themes of Paul's preaching. This age and the age to come ; The law, sin, and righteousness ; The event of grace : death and resurrection ; Faith, love, and obedience -- The character of the Pauline ethic. The theological structure of the ethic ; Problems of ethical action -- Appendix : a survey of nineteenth- and twentieth-century interpretations of Paul's ethic.