Go and Do Likewise: Jesus and Ethics

Spohn, William C.

ISBN 10: 0826411185 / ISBN 13: 9780826411181

Verlag: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 1999

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2008399

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Go and Do Likewise: Jesus and Ethics
• Verlag: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0826411185
• ISBN-13: 9780826411181
• Einband: hardcover
• Zustand: Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Religion

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What does Jesus have to do with ethics? There are two brief answers given by believers: "everything" and "not much". While evangelical or fundamentalist Christians would find authoritative guidance in the words and commands of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament, many theologians would say that Jesus is too concrete or narrowly particular to have any direct import for ethics. In this book, William Spohn takes a middle way, showing how Jesus becomes the "concrete universal" of Christian ethics. By forming a bridge from contemporary Christians to the words and deeds of Jesus, Jesus' story exemplifies moral perception, motivation and Christian identity. He shows how the practices of Christian spirituality (specifically prayer, service and community) trains the imagination and reorient emotions to produce a character and way of life to consonant with New Testament moral teaching.