Knowing Truth, Doing Good: Engaging New Testament Ethics »

A nuanced, postmodern treatment of New Testament ethics by an accomplished New Testament scholar • Literary treatments of all the New Testament writing.

Preface     ix
Introduction: The Bible in Babylon     1
Madness in the Methods? On Learning to Treat the Text as Subject
Wending Our Way in the Postmodern Maze     7
Making Meaning in the Mists of Babylon     51
The Ethics of the Jesus Movement
The Context of the Jesus Movement     75
The Ethics of the Jesus Movement     90
The Ethics of the Canonical Writings
The Gospel of Matthew     123
The Gospel of Mark     145
Luke-Acts     164
The Gospel and Letters of John     190
The Undisputed Letters of Paul     216
The Post-Pauline Letters     263
The Revelation to John     300
Engaging New Testament Ethics
Knowing Truth, Doing Good: The New Testament and Contemporary Christian Ethics     321
Notes     367
Works Cited     372
Index     384