The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics

The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics
by Richard B. Hays

The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics
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Author: Richard B. Hays
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-10-04
ISBN: 006063796X
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: HarperOne

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Book Review: not impressed - save your money
Summary: 2 Stars

Richard Hays is regarded as a great Bible scholar and theologian. Here he deals with several hot issues, including homosexuality and abortion. He very skillfully interprets the scriptures that pertain to each subject he addresses. However, his logic seems inconsistent at times and other times breaks down completely. His reasoning about homosexuality seems very strained to me. Basically, Hays argues we are all in such a fallen state that we can't use our human reason to decide right from wrong, so we have to let the Bible tell us that homosexuality is immoral. Why, you ask, is homosexuality immoral? Because God dislikes it - it's contrary to His will for the creature. Why, you ask, is it contrary to God's will? Because it's unnatural. Why is it so unnatural? Because it is contrary to God's will for his creation!! If you think I am exaggerating about the circularity of Hays's argument, please buy the book and read it for yourself. Someone else should waste their money besides me. Curiously his logic is very different when it comes to the issue of war. Hays believes that it is immoral for a Christian to be a soldier. He does not deny that the Bible is less than a pacifist document, but he finds a paradigm for nonviolence in scripture. This is all very curious to me. When it comes to the gay issue, we have to just strictly go by what the Bible says literally. Hays denies the possibility of a positive paradigm for homosexuality, but can find one for conscientious objection. Hmmm ... interesting.

Summary of The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics

A leading expert in New Testament ethics discovers in the biblical witness a unified ethical vision -- centered in the themes of community, cross and new creation -- that has profound relevance in today's world. Richard Hays shows how the New Testament provides moral guidance on the most troubling ethical issues of our time, including violence, divorce, homosexuality and abortion.

"Hays' passionately written book, with its bold agenda, has neither peer nor rival." --Leander E. Keck, Winkley Professor of Biblical Theology, Yale Divinity School

"There are few people I would rather read for the actual exposition of the New Testament than Richard Hays. This book is filled with wonderful readings that not only inform us about how to think better about the so-called 'problem of the relation between the New Testament and ethics' but, even more, speak of how our lives should be lived in the light of Christ's cross. -Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Studies, Duke University Divinity School

"Richard Hays has succeeded brilliantly in bringing New Testament studies, contemporary theology, and ethics into a deeply reflective conversation... Hays' point is that the New Testament norms the Christian life, and, with the help of imagination and metaphor, can address the moral conflicts of our time." --Ellen T. Charry, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University

"This book isn't just a breath of fresh air. It's a hurricane, blowing away the fog of half-understood pseudo-morality and fashionable compromise, and revealing instead the early Christian vision of true humanness and genuine holiness. If this isn't a book for our time, I don't know what is." --N. T. Wright, author of The New Testament and the People of God

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