TY - BOOK AU - Hays,Richard B TI - The moral vision of the New Testament: community, cross, new creation : a contemporary introduction to New Testament ethics SN - 9780060637965 AV - BS2545.H425.M673 1996 PY - 1996/// CY - [San Francisco] PB - HarperSanFrancisco KW - Bible KW - New Testament KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Ethics in the Bible KW - Christian ethics N1 - 1 (pages 471.-484) and indexes; 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; 2 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/hc044/96011845.html ER -