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Subject(s)

• Jesus Christ—Ethics [Browse]
• Christian ethics [Browse]

Summary note

• "When novelist and poet Reynolds Price, one of Christianity's most eloquent outlaws, was invited to deliver the annual Peabody Lecture at Harvard University Memorial Church in 2001, he chose to explore a subject that has produced fierce debate - even wars and crusades - and is still intensely relevant today: the ethics of Jesus.
• In two succeeding lectures at the National Cathedral and at Auburn Seminary, he continued the theme, exploring not only the apparently contradictory ethics that Jesus articulates in the Gospels but also constructing scenes that present Jesus with urgent dilemmas he never confronts there.
• In A Serious Way of Wondering, Price greatly expands those lectures and imagines Jesus in moments of confrontation with three problems of burning moral concern - suicide, homosexuality, and the plight of women in male-dominated cultures and faiths."--BOOK JACKET.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-139).

Contents

• A Possible Life of Jesus
• A Crowd of Dissonant Voices
• His News
• A Question More Likely than it Looks
• The Core of His Ethic and Ways to Employ it
• A First Speculation: Jesus and a Homosexual Man
• A Second Speculation: Jesus and a Suicide
• A Third Speculation: Jesus and a Desolate Woman
• An Outlaw Christian
• The Law of Grace: Grace all Ways.

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ISBN

0743230086

LCCN

2003041506

OCLC

51389199

RCP

C - S

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