The moral vision of the New Testament : community, cross, new creation : a contemporary introduction to New Testament ethics
A leading expert in New Testament ethics discovers in the biblical witness a unified ethical vision -- centered in the themes of community, cross and new creation -- that has profound relevance in today's world. Richard Hays shows how the New Testament provides moral guidance on the most troubling ethical issues of our time, including violence, divorce, homosexuality and abortion. - Publisher
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xv, 508 pages ; 24 cm
9780567085696, 0567085694
59640786
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
Originally published: San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, 1996