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>006063796X 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.M673 1996