Open AccessJustice and equality as a social ideas in the texts of the New Testament
Author(s) -
Anatoliy Koval
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
ukraïnsʹke relìgìêznavstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2617-9792
pISSN - 2306-3548
DOI - 10.32420/2015.76.598
Subject(s) - apostle , new testament , context (archaeology) , sociology , sociality , economic justice , interpretation (philosophy) , social justice , old testament , epistemology , philosophy , linguistics , social science , theology , history , political science , law , ecology , archaeology , biology
The article of Koval Anatoliy «Justice and equality as a social ideas in the texts of the New Testament» aims to study social ideas in the texts of the New Testament. Selected group of texts (canonical Gospels and Epistles of Apostle Paul) are the two major traditions of the New Testament text and reflect, in our opinion, two relatively autonomous interpretation of Christian kerygma. Taken into consideration two social ideas: justice and equality. These concepts are discussed in the context of the intention of the authors of those texts and attempt to assess the degree of sociality these ideas.