Knowing Truth, Doing Good: Engaging New Testament Ethics - Softcover

Pregeant, Russell

 
9780800638467: Knowing Truth, Doing Good: Engaging New Testament Ethics
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0800638468 ISBN 13: 9780800638467
Verlag: Augsburg Fortress, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

As we face new, complex, and often controversial ethical issues, turning to the New Testament for guidance can be a bewildering experience. One reason, Russell Pregeant explains, is that those writings belong to a distant and very different cultural world, where many of our questions simply weren't imagined. We must approach each of these texts with care, sensitivity to that distance, and alertness to our own responsibilities in this complex task.
Pregeant offers a alternative. Recognizing the open-ended character of language and the possibily and desirability of "multiple, sometimes competing strands of meaning" in the New Testament, he attends to the literary character of each of the cananical writings, and to the sociopolitical environment of the Jesus movement as well, asking what knowing the truth and doing the good look like in each other. At last he offers a social ethic grounded in concern for the common good.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Russell Pregeant is Professor of Religion and Chaplain at Curry College and Visiting Professor in New Testament at Andover Newton Theological School.

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Verlag
Augsburg Fortress
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0800638468
ISBN 13 
9780800638467
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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