The Use of the Bible in Christian EthicsIn this book, Thomas Ogletree seeks to establish common ground between biblical understandings and contemporary ethical inquiry. Drawing upon phenomenological investigations, he criticizes and modifies some of the most prominent conceptions of ethics, and moves toward a more coherent and comprehensive ethical theory. Guided by this theory, he critically engages selected biblical treatments of the moral life, placing special emphasis on biblical accounts of eschatology in its import for the ordered life of emerging Christian communities. |
Contents
The Interpretive Task | 1 |
Preunderstandings of the Moral Life | 15 |
Old Testament | 47 |
The Struggle for Covenant Fidelity | 58 |
Prophetic Judgment on Covenantal Infidelity | 64 |
Postexilic Adaptations to the World Empires | 74 |
Synoptic Portrayals of Eschatological Existence | 87 |
Social Motifs in Synoptic Thought | 116 |
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