Moral language in the New Testament : the interrelatedness of language and ethics in early Christian writings / [manuscript] :
edited by Ruben Zimmermann and Jan G. van der Watt ; in cooperation with Susanne Luther.
- T bingen : Mohr Siebeck, c2010.
- ix, 448 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe ; 296 .
- Kontexte und Normen neutestementlicher Ethik ; Contexts and norms of New Testament ethics ; v. 2 = v. 2 .
- Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament., 2. Reihe ; 296. Kontexte und Normen neutestamentlicher Ethik ; Bd. 2. .
"This volume is the result of a 'Humboldt-Kolleg' conference that was held at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) in September 2008 ...": Foreword.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Ethics in the New Testament and language : basic explorations and Eph 5:21-33 as test case / Defining morality in Christian ethics and the study of New Testament ethics / In search of identity : narrativity, discipleship and moral agency / Jesus' "conception of man" as an expression of His "ethics" / "Whoever humbles himself like this child" : the ethical instruction in Matthew's community discourse (Matt 18) and its narrative setting / Ethics through the power of language : some explorations in the Gospel according to John / As the Father has sent me, I send you : towards a missional-incarnational ethos in John 4 / The exposition of moral rules and principles in Pauline Letters : preliminary observations on moral language in earliest Christianity / "Unethical" language in the Pauline Letters? Stereotyping, vilification and identity matters / Putting on Christ : on the relation of sacramental and ethical language in the Pauline Epistles / Moral language in the New Testament : language and ethics in 2 Corinthians 3 / Moral language in Philemon / Some possible intertextual influences from the Jewish Scriptures on the (moral) language of Hebrews / Protreptic ethics in the Letter of James : the potential of figurative language in character formation / The "ethics" of badmouthing the other : vilification as persuasive speech act in First Clement / The familial metaphorical language of inclusion in the New Testament and HIV/AIDS destigmatization in Africa / Ruben Zimmermann -- Etienne de Villiers -- Sean Freyne -- Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr -- Matthias Konradt -- Jan G. van der Watt -- Kobus Kok -- Hermut Lh̲r -- Jeremy Punt -- Friedrich Wilhelm Horn -- Franȯis S. Malan -- Pieter G.R. de Villiers -- Disparagement as argument : the polemical use of moral language in Second Peter / Jr̲g Frey -- Gert J. Steyn -- Susanne Luther -- Lambert D. Jacobs -- Ethics and genre : the narrative setting of moral language in the New Testament / Richard A. Burridge -- Elijah Mahlangu.