New Testament Social Ethics for Today

by Richard Longenecker

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 1984

Overview

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.

Product Details

• Title: New Testament Social Ethics for Today
• Author: Richard Longenecker
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 1984
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. › Hermeneutics; Sociology, Biblical; Ethics in the Bible
• ISBNs: 9780802819925, 0802819923
• Resource ID: LLS:NWTSTMNTTHCSTDY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:01:32Z

About Richard Longenecker

Richard N. Longenecker is a prominent New Testament scholar and Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Wycliffe College, Toronto. He was formerly Distinguished Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.