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

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

Author/creator	Hays, Richard B.
Format	Book and Print
Edition	1st ed.
Publication Info	[San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, ©1996.
Description	xv, 508 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Subject(s)	Bible. New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. N.T.--Critique, interprétation, etc. Ethics in the Bible. Christian ethics. Morale dans la Bible.

Contents	The descriptive task: visions of the moral life in the new testament -- Paul: the Koinōnia 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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [471]-484) and indexes.
LCCN	96011845
ISBN	006063796X (pbk.)
ISBN	9780060637965 (pbk.)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	BS2545 .E8 H39 1996	✔ Available	Place Hold