Author: William C. Spohn Retail Price: $56.19 Our Price: $56.19
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What does Jesus have to do with ethics? There are two brief answers given by believers: 'everything' and 'not much.' While evangelical or fundamentalist Christians would find authoritative guidance in the words and commands of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament, many mainstream Christian ethicists would say that Jesus is too concrete or narrowly particular to have any direct import for ethics. In this book, William Spohn takes a middle way, showing how Jesus is the 'concrete universal' of Christian ethics. By forming a bridge from the lives of contemporary Christians to the words and deeds of Jesus, Jesus' story as a whole exemplifies moral perception, motivation, and Christian identity
