Justice and equality as a social ideas in the texts of the New Testament

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• справедливість
• рівність
• соціальна ідея
• общинна етика