New Testament Social Ethics for Today

Name: New Testament Social Ethics for Today
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ISBN: 9780802819925

ISBN-10: 0802819923

ISBN-13: 9780802819925

Edition: 1984

Authors: Richard N. Longenecker

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To Answer the Question of what role the New Testament should play in the formation and expression of Christian social morality today, Richard Longenecker here proposes a developmental hermeneutic, which distinguishes between "dedared principles" and "described practices" in the New Testament writings. With this distinction in mind; he focuses on the three couplets of Galatians 3:28 - "neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female" - showing how these matters were treated in early Christian thought and explaining their meaning for us today. In so doing, Longenecker lays a hermeneutical foundation for the much larger discussion of Christian social ethics. Book jacket.

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List price: $13.00
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Richard N. Longenecker is Ramsey Armitage Professor of New Testament, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto. He receivec the B.A. and M.A. degrees from Wheaton College and Wheaton Graduate School of Theology, respectively, and the Ph.D. from New College, University of Edinburgh. His principal publications include Paul, Apostle of Liberty (1964), The Christology of Early Jewish Christianity (1970), The Ministry and Message of Paul (1971), Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period (1975), "The Acts of the Apostles" in The Expositor's Bible Commentary (1981), and The New Testament Social Ethics for Today (1984).



Introduction



An Initial Dilemma: To Whom Shall We Go?



Four Ways of Using the New Testament



Some Basic Biblical Perspectives



Toward a Resolution of the Dilemma



A Developmental Hermeneutic: New Treasures as well as Old



The Conjunction of Old and New in the Biblical Records



Christian Theology as a Story of Development



A Proposed Understanding of New Testament Ethics



The Cultural Mandate: Neither Jew nor Greek



Cultural Divisions in the Ancient World



The Mandate of the Gospel



The Church's Practice in the New Testament



Christians and Jews in Succeeding Centuries



Some Implications for Today



The Social Mandate: Neither Slave nor Free



Slavery in the Ancient World



The Mandate of the Gospel



The Church's Practice in the New Testament



The Church and Slavery in Succeeding Centuries



Some Implications for Today



The Sexual Mandate: Neither Male nor Female



Women in the Ancient World



The Mandate of the Gospel



The Church's Practice in the New Testament



The Church and Women in Succeeding Centuries



Some Implications for Today


Epilogue


A Selected Bibliography for Further Study