Knowing Truth, Doing Good: Engaging New Testament Ethics - Softcover

Pregeant, Russell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800638468 ISBN 13: 9780800638467

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, 2007

Synopsis

As we face new, complex, and often controversial ethical issues, turning to the New Testament for guidance can be a bewildering experience. One reason, Russell Pregeant explains, is that those writings belong to a distant and very different cultural world, where many of our questions simply weren't imagined. We must approach each of these texts with care, sensitivity to that distance, and alertness to our own responsibilities in this complex task.
Pregeant offers a alternative. Recognizing the open-ended character of language and the possibily and desirability of "multiple, sometimes competing strands of meaning" in the New Testament, he attends to the literary character of each of the cananical writings, and to the sociopolitical environment of the Jesus movement as well, asking what knowing the truth and doing the good look like in each other. At last he offers a social ethic grounded in concern for the common good.

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About the Author

Russell Pregeant is Professor of Religion and Chaplain at Curry College and Visiting Professor in New Testament at Andover Newton Theological School.

Edition details

• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0800638468
• ISBN 13: 9780800638467
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320