Identity, Ethics, and Ethos in the New Testament

by Watt, Jan

• ISBN13: 9783110189735
• ISBN10: 3110189739
• eBook ISBN(s): 9783110893939
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-20
• Publisher: De Gruyter
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Summary

The book deals with the relation between identity, ethics, and ethos in the New Testament. The focus falls on the way in which the commandments or guidelines presented in the New Testament writings inform the behaviour of the intended recipients. The habitual behaviour (ethos) of the different Christian communities in the New Testament are plotted and linked to their identity. Apart from analytical categories like ethos, ethics, and identity that are clearly defined in the book, efforts are also made to broaden the specific analytical categories related to ethical material. The way in which, for instance, narratives, proverbial expressions, imagery, etc. inform the reader about the ethical demands or ethos is also explored.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Mapping the field : approaches to New Testament ethics	p. 3
The gospels and acts
The challenge of overflowing righteousness : to learn to live the story of the Gospel of Matthew	p. 23
Identity and rules of conduct in Mark following the suffering, expecting the coming Son of Man	p. 49
Compassionate action : living according to Luke's gospel	p. 77
Radical social redefinition and radical love : ethics and ethos in the Gospel according to John	p. 107
Driven by conviction and attitude! : ethics in the Acts of the Apostles	p. 135
Pauline letters
Shaping a Christian lifestyle in the Roman capital	p. 167
'Let no one seek his own, but each one the other's' (1 Corinthians 10, 24) : Pauline ethics according to 1 Corinthians	p. 199
Ethos and ethics in 2 Corinthians : Paul's higher ethical reasoning in preparation for his third visit to a congregation that were about to become his enemies	p. 219
Liberty - love - the Spirit : ethics and ethos according to the letter to the Galatians	p. 241
Unity of love in the body of Christ : identity, ethics and ethos in Ephesians	p. 257
'... as citizens of heaven live in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ ...'	p. 289
Do everything in the name of the Lord : ethics and ethos in Colossians	p. 303
'A life worthy of God' identity and ethics in the Thessalonian correspondence	p. 335
Heroes at home : identity, ethos, and ethics in 1 Timothy within the context of pastoral epistles	p. 357
How Christians can survive in a hostile social-economic environment : Paul's mind concerning difficult social conditions in the letter to Philemon	p. 387
General epistles, Hebrews and Revelation
Moving in and moving out : ethics and ethos in Hebrews*	p. 417
The letter of James : its vision, ethics, and ethos	p. 445
A code of conduct for children of God who suffer unjustly identity, ethics and ethos in 1 Peter	p. 473
Faithful Christian living amidst scoffers of the judgment day : ethics and ethos in Jude and 2 Peter	p. 511
'A matter of having fellowship' : ethics in the Johannine epistles	p. 535
The ethical response of an alternative community in a critical situation : marturia and martyrdom in the Apcoalypse of John	p. 565
2 clement
The motivations of ethos in 2 Clement	p. 597
Again : identity, ethics, and ethos in the New Testament : a few tentative remarks	p. 611
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