The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation • A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics

Richard B Hays

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The leading expert in New Testament ethics discovers in the New Testament a unified ethicall vision with relevance in today's world. Addressing complex test cases such as violence, divorce, homosexuality, and abortion, Hays shows how the New Testament provides challenging moral guidance on the hottest issues of our time.

"This book isn't just a breath of fresh air. It's a hurricane, blowing away the fog of half-understood pseudo-morality and fashionable compromise, and revealing instead the early Christian vision of true humanness and genuine holiness. If this isn't a book for our time, I don't know what is."

—N. T. Wright, author of The New Testament and the People of God

Richard Hays is professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School. He is noted for his work in the fields of New Testament ethics and Pauline theology.

PART ONE The Descriptive Task: Visions of the Moral Life in the New Testament

Paul: The Koinonia of His Sufferings

Developments of the Pauline Tradition

The Gospel of Mark: Taking Up the Cross

The Gospel of Matthew: Training for the Kingdom of Heaven

Luke-Acts: Liberation through the Power of the Spirit

The Gospel and Epistles of John: Loving One Another

Excursus: The Role of "the Historical Jesus" in New Testament Ethics

Revelation: Resisting the Beast

PART TWO The Synthethic Task: Finding Coherence in the Moral Vision of the New Testament

Diverse Voices in the New Testament Canon

Three Focal Images: Community, Cross, New Creation

PART THREE The Hermeneutical Task: The Use of the New Testament in Christian Ethics

How do Ethicists Use Scripture?

Five Representative Hermeneutical Strategies

How Shall We Use the Texts?

PART FOUR The Pragmatic Task: Living Under the Word — Test Cases

Violence in Defense of Justice

Divorce and Remarriage

Homosexuality

Anti-Judaism and Ethnic Conflict

Abortion

Conclusion

Sharing Possessions: A Challenge to the Church

Pressing On Toward the Goal: The Vision of New Testament Ethics

Biblical Studies
In Praise of Virtue