| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
254 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-236). |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
1. Legacies of earlier Hebrew religion -- Theocratic approach -- Decalogue -- Book of the covenant -- Earlier prophetic teaching -- Deuteronomic ideals -- Later prophetic teaching -- Code of holiness -- 2. Legacies of later Judaism -- Piety of the Psalter -- Moral wisdom -- Lengthened perspective -- Development of legalism -- Sects zealous for the law -- Re-awakening of prophecy in John -- 3. Jesus and his Jewish inheritance -- Jesus and John -- His positive, and negative, reactions to Judaism -- 4. The family of God and the life of Sonship -- Nature of the divine family -- Privileges of sonship -- Ethics of sonship -- 5. The kingdom of God and the life of imitation -- Devotion to Christ as moral incentive -- Example of Christ and Christian ideals -- Permanent validity of Christ-s ideal -- 7. Ethics in the primitive church -- The oral period -- The Lukan picture of primitive Christianity -- The primitive catechesis -- 8. Pauline moral theology -- Paul's moral psychology: flesh, spirit -- Paul's presuppositions -- Redemption as moral transformation -- Paul's ethical directives -- The new moral principle, love -- New life in the individual -- In the family -- In the daily work -- In the church -- In society and state -- Assessment of Pauline ethics -- 10. Petrine counsels -- Subordination: civil relationships, slaves, wives, the church -- Imitation of Christ -- Well-doing, holiness |
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11. Johannine rigour -- The fourth gospel -- The first epistle -- Gnostic moral indifferentism -- Gnostic lovelessness -- Commandments -- The world -- Imitation of Christ -- 12. Sub-apostolic discipline -- 2 Peter, Jude -- James: wisdom -- Hebrews -- The pastoral epistles -- Gospel of Matthew -- Gospel of Luke -- Revelation -- 13. Looking backwards -and forwards -- Distinctive character of biblical ethics -- Religious root of morality -- Objectivity -- Autonomy and freedom -- Corporateness -- Ethical worldliness -- Christus exemplar -- Ethical development and the Spirit |
| Summary |
A comprehensive and systematic moral account of the moral teaching of the whole Bible. Realistically presents the tension and rich diversity within biblical tradition. |
| Subject |
Ethics in the Bible.
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Bijbel.
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Christelijke ethiek.
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Ethics in the Bible. (OCoLC)fst00915863
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| ISBN |
0804207879 |
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9780804207874 |
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