Hays, Richard B, <br/><br/>
The moral vision of the New Testament :  community, cross, new creation : a contemporary introduction to New Testament ethics /  [print] 
Richard B. Hays. 
 - first edition. 
 - [San Francisco] :  HarperSanFrancisco,  (c)1996. 
 - xv, 508 pages ;  23 cm. 
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<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780060637965 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96011845 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bible.--New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ethics in the Bible.<br/>Christian ethics.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BS2545.H425.M673 1996