Richard B. Hays

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Richard B. Hays (born May 4, 1948 ) is Professor of New Testament at Duke University , in Durham, North Carolina. He is considered one of the leading New Testament scholars and is particularly concerned with the ethics of the New Testament, the Pauline letters and the early Christian interpretation of the Old Testament.

Life

Richard Hays received his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Yale University in 1970, his Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School in 1977 and his doctorate in 1981 from Emory University . From 1981 to 1991 he taught at Yale University and since 1991 he has been a professor at Duke University's Divinity School.

Among the ecumenical experiences in his life, Hays counts next to the Methodist Church William Sloane Coffin , whose influence made him a pacifist , Francis Schaeffer and a communal Mennonite house church community, in which he lived with his wife for several years. He sees himself as evangelical , but rejects the doctrine of the inerrancy of Scripture because it disguises internal tensions in the text.

Richard Hays is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church .

Positions

He became known to a wider circle in 1986 through his article Relations Natural and Unnatural: A Response to John Boswell's Exegesis of Romans I , where he describes John Boswell's interpretation as a prime example of Eisegesis and questions Boswell's historical reconstruction.

Hays firmly takes the view that all people should be treated with love and friendship. Still, he believes the Bible condemns homosexuality . He begins the chapter on homosexuality in his book The Moral Vision of the New Testament by saying that his view is shaped by discussions with a friend who died of AIDS in 1990 . The HIV virus had this friend through sex with another man get before deciding for themselves on the homosexual lifestyle to renounce.

Works

  • Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2016).
  • The Faith of Jesus Christ: The Narrative Substructure of Galatians 3: 1-4: 11 , 2nd ed.Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.
  • The Conversion of the Imagination: Scripture and Eschatology in 1 Corinthians , New Testament Studies 45 (1999): 391-412.
  • First Corinthians (Interpretation Commentaries; Louisville: Westminster / John Knox, 1997).
  • The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996).
  • Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989).

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  1. ^ Tim Stafford: Richard Hays: Recovering the Bible for the church , Christianity Today, Feb. 8, 1999
  2. ↑ Richard B. Hays: Relations Natural and Unnatural: A Response to John Boswell's Exegesis of Romans I , Journal of Religious Ethics, Vol 14, 1986
  3. ↑ Richard B. Hays: Relations Natural and Unnatural: A Response to John Boswell's Exegesis of Romans I , Journal of Religious Ethics, Vol 14, 1986
  4. ^ Richard Hay's story of Gary, The Moral Vision of the New Testament, p 379-389 ( Memento of June 19, 2006 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Hays, Richard B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hays, Richard Bevan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theologian, New Testament scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1948