New Testament Social Ethics for Today (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802819925)

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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 "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.

Author: Richard N. Longenecker
ISBN-10: 0802819923
ISBN-13: 9780802819925
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1984
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.02w x 0.34d