New Covenant Morality in Paul

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Part I - The Theological Context of the Christian Imperative:
        an enquiry into the Church’s self-understanding as the theological context of Paul’s paraklêsis

PART II - The Ground and Formal Content of the New Covenant Imperative

Part III - Agapê in the New Covenant Perspective

Part IV - Love and Law in New Covenant Morality

  • Chapter 1: The existence and ground of particular precepts; their relation to the imperative of love
    1. The ethical demands of the Mosaic Law
    2. ‘Conscience’
    3. The ‘law’ of Rm. 2,15
    4. The words of Jesus
    5. Paul’s ‘directives’
    6. The imperative of love and particular precepts
  • Chapter 2: The status of external law in New Covenant morality
    1. ‘Liberation from external law’—the ‘Mitte’ of New Covenant morality?
    2. Rm. 8,2 in context and the ‘Mitte’ of New Covenant morality
    3. The gramma-pneuma antithesis
    4. Implications for the status of external law in New Covenant morality: the meaning of liberation in Paul
    5. Gospel and paraklêsis: the theological context of external law in the Christian economy
    6. The ecclesiological and christological context of external law in the Christian economy
  • Chapter 3: Love and law in the living out of New Covenant morality
  • Some Conclusions

Appendices

  • Appendix A: The literary unity of 1 Thess 4:1ff
  • Appendix B: The indicative-imperative relationship
  • Appendix C: The content of the paraklêsis in 1 Thess 4:3-7
  • Appendix D: God’s love and the Christian’s in theological tradition
  • Appendix E: Liberation from the ‘slavery of external law’?
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDICES
  • INDEX OF AUTHORS
  • SCRIPTURAL INDEX
  • INDEX TO EXTRA-BIBLICAL REFERENCES
  • INDEX TO GREEK WORDS AND PHRASES (SELECTION)

Updated 2010-01-10 (build:68) by Andrew Fountain