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Solidarity and Difference: A Contemporary Reading of Paul's Ethics

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Horrell concludes with three alternative ways of appropriating Pauline ethics to contemporary situations and dilemmas. As the first alternative, Horrell presents thinking `with' Paul along the lines of Hauerwas's ecclesial ethics, secondly, `beyond' Paul to offer a mediating position between communitarian and liberal ethics, and thirdly, `against' Paul due to the sheer differences between our plural society and the Pauline communitarian context.

The primary goal of David G. Horrell's book is to bring Paul's ethical teaching into interplay with contemporary ethical theory. Horrell's motivation for bringing Paul back from the allegedly irrelevant world of overly contextual ancient Judaeo-Hellenistic thought is a healthy one: it is too often the case in the current ethical debates that tear up Christian churches worldwide that some or most of Paul's ethical teaching is simply dismissed as if its date of expiry had passed long before John Locke and Immanuel Kant. Horrell insists on the NT being relevant to modern ethical theory (p. 32).
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