The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creationa Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethic - Richard Hays

Descriere The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creationa Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethic - Richard Hays

\nA 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. \nA 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. Author Richard B. Hays shows how the New Testament provides moral guidance on the most troubling ethical issues of our time, including violence, divorce, homosexuality, and abortion. In this thorough study, Hays examines the morality expressed in each book of the New Testament, and analyzes how individual ethicists use scripture in their own work. He also looks at test cases, such as violence in the defense of justice, or ethnic conflict, and resolves them using the ethical framework outlined in his own book. Richard Hays is professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School. He is noted for his work in the fields of New Testament ethics and Pauline theology. Hay's passionately written book, with its bold agenda, has neither peer nor rival. - Leander E. Keck, Winkley Professor of Biblical Theology, Yale Divinity School \nA 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. Author Richard B. Hays shows how the New Testament provides moral guidance on the most troubling ethical issues of our time, including violence, divorce, homosexuality, and abortion. In this thorough study, Hays examines the morality expressed in each book of the New Testament, and analyzes how individual ethicists use scripture in their own work. He also looks at test cases, such as violence in the defense of justice, or ethnic conflict, and resolves them using the ethical framework outlined in his own book. Richard Hays is professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School. He is noted for his work in the fields of New Testament ethics and Pauline theology. Hay's passionately written book, with its bold agenda, has neither peer nor rival. - Leander E. Keck, Winkley Professor of Biblical Theology, Yale Divinity School \nA leadi

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Harperone

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9780060637965

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