I first met Jimmy Dunn face-to-face in October of 1991. We had been conversing by letter in the days before email for several months about coming to Durham University as one of his doctoral students. And now I sat in his office for the first time to begin my work.
After all the pleasantries of meeting for the first time, we began conversation. I initially wrote to Jimmy of my interest in New Testament ethics, particularly of my desire to do something focused on Christology and ethics. I had just finished a Th.M in theological ethics from Duke University under the supervision of Stanley Hauerwas, and I shared Stanley's concern at the time that there had not been enough interdisciplinary work on the relationship between the New Testament and ethics as a mode of theological reflection (that has long since been corrected). Too many treatments of New Testament ethics were overly formal focusing on ethics as decisionism lacking reflection on questions of identity and character. Jimmy was very interested in the topic so we began to outline my work for the next few months.
I like nice... nice is...well... nice. To Quote Major Frank Burns in M*A*S*H, "It's nice to be nice to the nice."
Old Testament: Ezekiel 34:11-16
Psalter: Psalm 85:8-13 or Psalm 145:8-13
Old Testament: Genesis 22:1-14 or Jeremiah 28:5-9
Below are links to a series I did a few years ago on Joel Green's fine book, Reading Scripture as Wesleyans. Given the sometimes seemingly apocalyptic character of 2020, and that there are those combing the pages of the last book of the Bible for clues as to our situation, I thought it might be helpful to post these links for your edification.
