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The moral vision of the New Testament : community, cross, new creation : a contemporary introduction to New Testament ethics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hays, Richard B.
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, ©1996.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Bible. > New Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible > New Testament > Critique, interpreÌ?tation, etc.
Bible. > Nouveau Testament > Critique, interpreÌ?tation, etc.
Bible. > New Testament.
Bibel > Neues Testament
Ethics in the Bible.
Christian ethics.
Morale dans la Bible.
Christliche Ethik
Ethik
Nieuwe Testament.
Christelijke ethiek.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The descriptive task: visions of the moral life in the new testament
  • Paul: the KoinoÌ"nia 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.