The Mission of Jesus: His Meaning for Today

The Mission of Jesus: His Meaning for Today

1.How Jesus' ministry of healing as signs of the coming Kingdom relates to bioethical issues today such as abortion, genetic engineering and assisted suicide NB: If the student chooses this subject, he/she is to select one major bioethical issue.(abortion, genetic engineering, cloning, assisted suicide, etc.) and develop that issue.

No review can do justice to the cause and the scrutiny Stassen and Gushee provide on these issues. They often give a detailed treatment of important issues of interpretation of biblical text and are aware of the history of interpretation and important schools of thought in Christian ethics. They demonstrate the value of strong social scientific research in their use of statistics to monitor trends in society and to explore and expose the flagrant violations of justice. They illustrate the relevance of the teachings of Jesus with an appeal to the life stories of their own and others who have sought to embody loyalty to the Kingdom of God. The book can be recommended for every pastor's library as a resource, not only for the Sermon on the Mount, but also for many areas of ethical challenge facing the Department of congregations today. The book will also be very useful in a text for graduate courses in Christian ethics. Students will engage not only with extensive treatment of biblical materials on major ethical concerns, but also with a wide range of voices and perspectives in the discipline of Christian ethics.

The major part of Kingdom of ethics is a journey through the Sermon on the Mount in order to explore how Jesus' transformation initiatives "to make possible" the practice of issuing, in the midst of a sinful world servitude to vicious cycles of despair and destruction "(144).

2. How Jesus' proclamation and practice of peace speaks to the Christian “just war” tradition and our current war on terrorism In response to this difficulty of interpretation, a common response has generally been to limit the scope of this command in different ways to adapt to the social and political context. As we have seen, Augustine limits its scope so that it appears that the inner life of the person. Some modern interpreters limit its scope of a particular type of relationship, that is to include only personal and not political. We are to love our enemies in our small community. ...