The Ethics of Mark's Gospel

By Dan O. Via

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159752395X
• ISBN13: 9781597523950
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.0"