a perennial theological issue, has assumed new importance with the popularity of relativistic ethics, the ’new morality’. Proponents of this approach generally reject any appeal to moral ’rules’, including especially those found in the OT.1 On the other hand, sometimes in response to this approach, others stress the eternal and absolute validity of at least the OT ’moral’ law.2 The debate has focused attention on the teaching and example of Jesus, to which both sides appeal for support. And an initial glance at Jesus’ teaching would

O. Sydney Barr

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The Christian New Morality: A Biblical Study of Situation Ethics