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Biblical Interpretation and Christian Ethics

Part of New Studies in Christian Ethics

  • Date Published: September 2005
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521020282
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  • Inter-disciplinary studies are emerging rapidly to meet the insistent demands of the modern age. Biblical interpretation is itself inter-disciplinary, drawing together the biblical traditions and others to address the problem of interpreting texts. Christian ethics is also multi-disciplinary and thus no stranger to this new ethos. To bring these two areas together is a potentially creative undertaking. It comes at a time when much attention is being paid to reading texts and the interpretive tradition. The author's principal aim is to read the Bible in the context of moral concern. Attention is paid to the liberal quest and to eschatology and ethics (each marking a distinct epoch in the relationship of Bible and ethics), before the post-critical age is studied under the rubric 'participation in meaning'. The final section deals with ethics and historical reading, and with ethics and contemporary reading. The book concludes with a discussion of selected practical topics.

    • The first comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the relationship between Christian ethics and biblical interpretation
    • Well-known author of several well-reviewed books
    • Great current interest in the subject from NT scholars and theologians
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    05th Mar 2014 by Favour

    Contains the most influential word of life that can change many lives, gives a very good perspective narrow about the bibble interpretation and as well as how it should be applied

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    • Date Published: September 2005
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521020282
    • length: 320 pages
    • dimensions: 215 x 140 x 18 mm
    • weight: 0.417kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    General editor's preface
    Preface
    Abbreviations
    Introduction - relating the Bible to Christian ethics
    Part I. Liberal Principles and Practice:
    1. Eternal values
    2. The principles of social ethics
    Part II. Eschatology and Ethics:
    3. Interim ethics
    4. Existential ethics
    5. The ethics of covenant and command
    6. The problem of Christian social ethics
    Part III. Participation in Meaning:
    7. The ethics of historical interpretation
    8. The ethics of contemporary reading.

  • Author

    J. I. H. McDonald, University of Edinburgh

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