Solidarity and Difference: A Contemporary Reading of Paul's Ethics - Softcover

Horrell, David G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0567043223 ISBN 13: 9780567043221

Verlag: T.& T.Clark Ltd, 2005

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'This is a bold and highly stimulating intellectual experiment. Placing Paul in conversation with current ethical debate - especially that between 'communitarians' (such as Hauerwas) and 'liberals' (such as Habermas) - Horrell explores Paul's distinctive metanorm of solidarity and his subtle negotiations of difference, as ways of maintaining community. Through close study of key texts and carefully reasoned debates across multiple disciplines, Horrell reconfigures the Pauline ethic and opens it up to dialogue with public morality as never before. Both New Testament scholars and ethicists will welcome this ground-breaking work.' - John Barclay, Lightfoot Professor of Divinity, Durham University, UK.--John Barclay 'David Horrell has put us all in his debt with this careful, but penetrating study. Ethics is too often a neglected element in the study of Paul, but Horrell shows how these key issues of solidarity and other-regard for difference lie at the heart of Paul's theology and his entire mission. Furthermore, in relating them to the current debate about liberals and communitarians, Horrell has produced a thorough-going account which is as relevant for today as it is exciting to read. Not only will this book be essential reading for both ethicists and New Testament scholars, I hope it will also provoke greater debate and dialogue between the disciplines.' The Reverend Dr Richard A Burridge, Dean of King's College London, UK.--The Reverend Dr Richard A Burridge 'D.G.Horell discovers in his new book three basic values underlying the moral world of Paul: corporate solidarity, difference to other people and other-regard. His results are an important contribution to our understanding of Paul's ethics. He succeeds in locating them in the contemporary ethical debate between liberals and communitarians, i.e. between our search for universal norms and our commitment to the 'local' traditions of our concrete communities. There is much exegetical and moral wisdom in this lucidly written book, a wisdom which avoids simplifications and the peril of modernizing Paul. The Paul we encounter in this book is no eccentric, but a serious moral thinker of Early Christianity wrestling with problems which are not out of date, but which recur again and again in our life.' Gerd Theissen, Professor for New Testament, University of Heidelberg, Germany.--Gerd Theissen, 'Horrell's two-way conversation between contemporary ethics and Paul fills a gaping hole; and fills it beautifully. For those who take their lives seriously in our complex global society, this book is too important to be missed.'--Ann Jervis, Associate Professor of New Testament, Wycliffe College, Toronto. The author achieves his aim of presenting an exegetically serious discussion and a thoughtful dialogue.'--Atsuhiro Asano, The Expository Times, November 2006, Vol 118, No. 2 "Expository Times " "deserves more space than I can give it here""This is book for the seroius student. But there is also much which is relevent to moral issues both within and outside the Church"--, "Methodist Recorder " 'This book is a real gem! Horrell provides a thoroughly readable, but deeply scholarly, study of Pauline ethics. Particularly valuable are insights provided from the social sciences, together with the way in which Horrell relates Paul's ethics with modern ethical theories. This will be essential reading for all students of Paul as well as for any wishing to relate the NT to contemporary ethical discussions.' Professor Christopher Tuckett, Pembroke College, Oxford University, UK. 'David Horrell's nuanced study significantly advances the conversation about Pauline ethics. Engaging in patient and respectful dialogue with a variety of scholarly viewpoints, Horrell depicts a Paul whose deepest moral commitments focus on community solidarity and other-regard, as defined by the pattern of Christ's self-giving death. His judicious exegesis shows that Paul's ethics cannot be boxed in to either a "communitarian" or a "liberal" perspective; thus, Horrell's reading of Paul offers a mediating voice that suggests a way beyond certain impasses in contemporary ethical debate. At the same time, the book shows how social-scientific analysis of Paul's letters can be brought into fruitful engagement with theological exegesis. Anyone who reads Horrell's richly synthetic work, therefore, will be challenged to think more precisely about matters of central importance.' Richard B. Hays, George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament, The Divinity School, Duke University, USA.--Sanford Lakoff "We should be grateful for David Horell's contribution [and] careful exegesis"--Sanford Lakoff "Church Times " "deserves more space than I can give it here" "This is book for the seroius student. But there is also much which is relevent to moral issues both within and outside the Church"--Sanford Lakoff "Methodist Recorder " 'David Horrell's achievement in producing this study of Paul's ethics is immense. It combines a careful and nuanced study of the Greek texts with an insightful appreciation of the current ethical debates in the English and German speaking world. The range of scholarship is so wide, and the connections between Paul's writings and our present ethical debates is so sensitively handled, that I doubt if this study will be surpassed for some considerable time.' Michael Williams, ANVIL, volume 23 No. 3, 2006--Sanford Lakoff "Anvil " 'This is an excellent example of an approach to Paul's letters reflecting clearly on Horrell's own presuppositions and methodological procedures. Moreover, it successfully engages contemporary philosophical, sociological and ethical theories and Paul in a conversation demonstrating the significance of such a conversation for contemporary societies.' Kathy Ehrensperger, Vol 28.5, 2006--Sanford Lakoff "Journal for the Study of the New Testament " "His fresh interpretation of the apostle's moral argumentation significantly advances the discussion of his [Paul's] ethics... An engaging and important contribution to Pauline studies" Victor Paul Furnish RBL 03.07--Sanford Lakoff "Rbl " 'His [Horrell's] account is factually very clear, systematic and easy to understand.'--Sanford Lakoff "This book is based on the conviction that Paul, whose ethical teaching is fascinating within its own context, is also 'worth wrestling with as a practical moral philosopher' in the twenty-first century...Moreover for Paul - as Horrell himself so admirably draws out in his exegesis of the text - theology and ethics belong together..."--Sanford Lakoff "Theology "

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This book presents a wide-ranging study of Pauline ethics, examining how Paul's moral discourse envisages and constructs communities in which there is a strong sense of solidarity but also legitimate difference in various aspects of ethical practice. Unlike many books on New Testament ethics, this work reads New Testament texts with an explicit awareness of contemporary ethical theory, and attempts to assess Paul's contribution as a moral thinker in the context of modern debate.

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• Verlag: T.& T.Clark Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0567043223
• ISBN 13: 9780567043221
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 356