Knowing Truth, Doing Good

"As we face new, complex, and often controversial ethical issues, turning to the New Testament for guidance can be a bewildering experience. One reason, Russell Pregeant explains, is that those writings belong to a distant and very different cultural world, where many of our questions simply weren't imagined. We must approach each of these texts with care, sensitivity to that distance, and alertness to our own responsibilities in this complex task." "Pregeant offers a alternative. Recognizing the open-ended character of language and the possibily and desirability of "multiple, sometimes competing strands of meaning" in the New Testament, he attends to the literary character of each of the cananical writings, and to the sociopolitical environment of the Jesus movement as well, asking what knowing the truth and doing the good look like in each other. At last he offers a social ethic grounded in concern for the common good."--BOOK JACKET.Read less