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New Testament Social Ethics for Today

By Richard N. Longenecker

Book information

Publisher
Eerdmans
Year
1984
ISBN
0802819923, 9780802819925
LCC
BS2331 .L66 1984
Open Library ID
OL2839837M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6762657 bytes)
Pages
124\124
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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 “declared 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.

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