The Ethics of Mark's Gospel

Download or read book The Ethics of Mark's Gospel written by Dan O. Via and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-10-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seeking to develop a hermeneutic for doing ethics on a narrative base, Via here focuses on Mark's ethics and suggests ways in which they interrelate with other significant motifs in the Gospel: eschatology, revelation, faith, and the messianic secret. Via maintains that the middle of Mark's plot presents the paradoxical position of the disciple who is placed in the overlapping of the kingdom of God and the age of hardness of heart. Here is a bold attempt to integrate several agendas in interpretation--iterary criticism, biblical studies, constructive theological ethics--so as to draw out the implications of Mark's narrative for faith and conduct in the real world.