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The Theological and Ethical Thought World Of the New Testament- Volume Two: the Collective Witness

All too often- argues Ben Witherington- the theology of the New Testament has been divorced from its ethics- leaving as isolated abstractions what are fully integrated- dynamic elements within the New Testament itself. As Witherington stresses- "behavior affects and reinforces or undoes belief." Having completed commentaries on all of the New Testament books- a remarkable feat in itself- Witherington now offers the second of a two-volume set on the theological and ethical thought world of the New Testament. The first volume looks at the individual witnesses- while the second examines the collective witness. The New Testament- says Ben Witherington- is "like a smallish choir. All are singing the same cantata- but each has an individual voice and is singing its own parts and notes. If we fail to pay attention to all the voices in the choir- we do not get the entire effect. . . . [If the first volume was] about closely analyzing the sheet music left to us by which each musician's part is delineated- [this second volume attempts] to re-create what it might have sounded like had they ever gotten together and performed their scores to produce a single masterful cantata." What the New Testament authors have in mind- Witherington contends- is that all believers should be conformed in thought- word and deed to the image of Jesus Christ--the indelible image.

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Series Title
The Indelible Image
Call Number
225 Wit c.1
Publisher
: Ivp Academic.,
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838 hlm.
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9780830838622
Classification
Bible (220-229)
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Subject(s)
Religion
Ethics
Christian Theology
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