Correlating Bible and Ethics: Tensions and Complexity
In a brief theoretical section this article advances the thesis that the task of correlating the Bible and ethics is necessarily diversebecause it encounters two dialectical bridges. One is the tension between individual and communal perspectives; theother is the complexity generated by varieties in...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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| In: |
Journal of ethics in Antiquity and Christianity
Year: 2019, Volume: 1, Pages: 17-26 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible
/ Exegesis
/ Ethics
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| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible NCA Ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Biblische Ethik
B Bibelhermeneutik B Law B Neues Testament B Implizite Ethik B Theological ethics B Metaethics B Bibel und Ethik |
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| Summary: | In a brief theoretical section this article advances the thesis that the task of correlating the Bible and ethics is necessarily diversebecause it encounters two dialectical bridges. One is the tension between individual and communal perspectives; theother is the complexity generated by varieties in exegetical and hermeneutical methods. Following a partial demonstration ofthe diversity opened up by Gadamer's attention to the impact of history on interpretations by means of a description of Mi -chael Wolter's innovative exegesis of Rom 7, the article makes an analogy between the competence stage in narrative structureand an ethical program that involves obligation, willingness, and the ability to perform what is necessary for resolving anethical dilemma. The last section of the article samples and evaluates models of correlating biblical interpretation with ethics:Law; imitation of exemplars; cultivating a habitus of virtues; Richard Hays's proposal for descriptive and synthetic interpretation,hermeneutical correlation, and pragmatic embodiment of behavior; implicit ethics; and metaethics. |
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| ISSN: | 2627-6062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of ethics in Antiquity and Christianity
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.25784/jeac.v1i0.109 |