Dirt, Greed, and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implications for TodayThis new revised edition, of the landmark 1988 text, includes updated text and notes throughout, taking advantage of recent studies of sexual ethics and, where appropriate, criticizing them. A new chapter engages the presumed "ethic of creation" that has become a major theme among more conservative thinkers and writers in biblical ethics. A concluding chapter on sex is thoroughly rewritten and offers a positive statement of a New Testament sexual ethic. |
Contents
What Is Purity? | 11 |
Israels Basic Purity Law | 20 |
Purity in FirstCentury Judaism | 45 |
Purity and ChristianityA FirstCentury Historians | 66 |
Purity in the Gospels | 80 |
Paul and Purity | 97 |
The New Testament and Sexual Purity | 124 |
Family and Sexual Property in the Gospels | 168 |
Paul and Sexual Property | 190 |
The New Testament on Sexual Property | 221 |
New Testament Sexual Ethics and Todays World | 237 |
Abbreviations | 269 |
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| Title | Dirt, Greed, and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implications for Today |
| Author | Louis William Countryman |
| Publisher | Fortress Press, 1988 |
| ISBN | 1451413165, 9781451413168 |
| Length | 290 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Biblical Studies / General Religion / Christian Theology / Ethics Religion / General |
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