The Jesus Scandals
Why he shocked his contemporaries (and still shocks today)
David Instone-Brewer
9780857210234
192 pages
SPCK Group
Overview
The author's aim is to help thinking lay persons and people preparing sermons to apply NT ethics within a modern culture, while still remaining faithful to the text - by taking into account the ancient culture. This is high quality scholarship at a very accessible level. Over the centuries Jesus's teaching on ethical matters has often become muted and distorted. This book sets the matter straight. Here are 30 areas of ethical debate: in each context Jesus offered insights which would have left his contemporaries agape.
Author Bio
The Revd Dr David Instone-Brewer is Senior Research Fellow and TechnicalOfficer at Tyndale House, Cambridge. A Baptist minister, his hobby iscomputer programming. A rabbinic scholar, he is author of many academicand popular articles, and of 'Divorce and Remarriage in the Church: Biblical Solutions for Pastoral Realities', published by Paternoster.
