Quotes About Richard B. Hays

It is not possible to use the just war tradition as a hermeneutical device for illuminating the New Testament, nor have the defenders of the tradition ordinarily even attempted to do so.

All actions, however ostensibly spiritual, must meet the criterion of constructive impact on the church community.

The question that Luke-Acts puts to the church—then and now—is not "Are you reforming society?" but rather "Is the power of the resurrection at work among you?

one cannot become a follower of Jesus in this Gospel's narrative world without surrendering a position of privilege.

this means—in the Apocalypse just as in the prophetic visions upon which it draws (Isa. 65:17–25, 66:22)—that God will have redeemed and transformed the creation, not abolished it.