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Lädt ... The Bad Jesus: The Ethics of New Testament Ethicsvon Hector Avalos
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. The author examines the scholarship surrounding the ethics of the New Testament, to demonstrate that the ethics attributed to Jesus are neither innovative nor all that great, in many cases. He goes step by step through the New Testament, including comparisons with Old Testament verses where appropriate, and shows that Jesus is not a consistently good, moral guide for modern life. There were some rather inexplicable lacks in his discussion, such as failure to address the verse about killing his enemies, but other than that, it was a good, thorough book. He did include quite a bit of Hebrew and Greek text, but he did usually translate that. The main problem for me was the places where he spent a couple of pages dissecting a very particular Greek or Hebrew word and it's traditional usage. I recognize that as important, but I suspect there are probably ways to do that a bit better (i.e., more interesting and less filled with insider talk, since this book appears to have been written for a lay audience). Overall, satisfying and worthwhile. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Did Jesus ever do anything wrong? Judging by the vast majority of books on New Testament ethics, the answer is a resounding No. Writers on New Testament ethics generally view Jesus as the paradigm of human standards and behaviour. But since the historical Jesus was a human being, must he not have had flaws, like everyone else? The notion of a flawless human Jesus is a paradoxical oddity in New Testament ethics. According to Avalos, it shows that New Testament ethics is still primarily an apologetic enterprise despite its claim to rest on critical and historical scholarship. The Bad Jesus is a powerful and challenging study, presenting detailed case studies of fundamental ethical principles enunciated or practised by Jesus but antithetical to what would be widely deemed 'acceptable' or 'good' today. Such topics include Jesus' supposedly innovative teachings on love, along with his views on hate, violence, imperialism, animal rights, environmental ethics, Judaism, women, disabled persons and biblical hermeneutics. After closely examining arguments offered by those unwilling to find any fault with the Jesus depicted in the Gospels, Avalos concludes that current treatments of New Testament ethics are permeated by a religiocentric, ethnocentric and imperialistic orientation. But if it is to be a credible historical and critical discipline in modern academia, New Testament ethics needs to discover both a Good and a Bad Jesus. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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