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Virtue amidst Vice
J. Daryl Charles
其他書名
The Catalog of Virtues in 2 Peter 1
出版
Bloomsbury Publishing
, 1998-01-01
主題
Religion / Biblical Studies / General
ISBN
0567101266
9780567101266
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-LbeBAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Virtue amidst Vice represents an attempt to probe a relatively obscure portion of a relatively obscure New Testament document. 2 Peter reflects a social setting that presents a most daunting pastoral challenge. The danger confronting the Christian community is a lapse in ethical standards and a return-whether by mere forgetfulness or in wholesale apostasy-to the former way of life. 2 Peter's prophetic and paraenetic response borrows from the moral grammar of contemporary moral philosophers in exhorting the readers to recall-and validate through virtuous living-the faith they have received. The theme of the moral life runs throughout 2 Peter, with the various components of the author's literary arsenal subordinated to this thematic development. It is the function of the catalogue of virtues (1.5-7) both to introduce and to anchor the author's call to repel moral scepticism and reinvigorate the moral life.