Imitating Jesus: An Inclusive Approach to New Testament Ethics

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 490 pages
• Published by: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company October 22, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0802844588
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0802844583
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.5 inches
• Weighs: 2 pounds

Reader Reviews
The Bible still matters in many contexts. It certainly matters in South Africa, having shaped their history, both from the side of colonialism and apartheid and from the side of our liberation struggle. The South African context therefore provides an important site for the author's project. Surrounding his South African case study are an in-depth engagement with the full array of scholarship on New Testament ethics and his own careful reading of particular New Testament texts. But it is the South African site that provides the author with an answer to the "so what" question? Vast amounts of biblical scholarship stop short of moving beyond a piling up of ancient detail. The author goes beyond the detail to risk saying something about how and why the detail matters. And while readers in South Africa will derive a special benefit from this study, those in other contexts will also find much that resonates with their own contexts.