 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
DIRT, GREED AND SEX
SEXUAL ETHICS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR TODAY |
| By: |
L. William Countryman, Philip F. Esler |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
|
£19.99 |
|
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for
further information.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0334028574 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780334028574 |
| Publisher: |
SCM PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 2001 |
| Series: |
SCM Classics |
| Pages: |
322 |
| Description: |
Conducting a thorough examination of sexual ethics in the New Testament, Countryman discusses biblical notions of purity and property, and characterises sex as one of the rich blessings of creation. |
| Synopsis: |
Conducting a thorough examination of sexual ethics in the New Testament, this work argues that the New Testament writers did not construct a new sexual ethic from the ground up, but took over existing cultural patterns and refocused them, pushing some elements from the centre to the periphery. This suggests a pattern of ethics for contemporary life. Discussing biblical notions of purity and property, which dominate ethical ideas in the New Testament, the author characterizes sex as one of the rich blessings of creation, "to be received with delight and thanksgiving". Countryman's generous and eirenic views on sexual matters, based as they are on solid biblical research, are a welcome intervention in an area which unfortunately, in Christian circles, tends still to be dominated by conservatism and misinformation, rather than by liberal principle. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
SCM Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
No Cheese, Please!
A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.
|
My Brother Is a Superhero
Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
|
|
|
|
|