The Relevance of the Old Testament for Contemporary Ethics
The Old Testament has a rather bad reputation, because of its intolerant and violent attitudes on many issues. It is indeed a product of another age, and many of its assumptions are untenable in the modern world. Nonetheless it remains important for discussions of ethics, primarily for two reasons:...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
[2019]
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Journal of ethics in Antiquity and Christianity
Year: 2019, Volume: 1, Pages: 10-16 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Old Testament
/ Ethics
/ Justice
/ Judaism
/ Christianity
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism CA Christianity HB Old Testament NCA Ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Justice
B Alttestamentliche Ethik B Ethik in Antike und Christentum B Theological ethics B Ethik und das Alte Testament |
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| Summary: | The Old Testament has a rather bad reputation, because of its intolerant and violent attitudes on many issues. It is indeed a product of another age, and many of its assumptions are untenable in the modern world. Nonetheless it remains important for discussions of ethics, primarily for two reasons: One is the fact that it exhibits a passion for justice that is unparalleled in world literature. The other is that it is the oldest layer of one of the major traditions that shaped western culture for two thousand years. |
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| ISSN: | 2627-6062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of ethics in Antiquity and Christianity
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.25784/jeac.v1i0.97 |