Let Justice Roll Down: The Old Testament, Ethics, and Christian Life

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Westminster John Knox Press, 1 Oca 1991 - 383 sayfa

Connecting the Old Testament with the modern church, this book relates the testimonies and stories of Israel's faith in the Hebrew canon to the character and conduct of Christians and the Christian community today. By opening up the moral resources available in the Old Testament, this book will spur discussion of both the character of those moral resources and their pertinence to ethical issues in a complex and challenging time.

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Abbreviations
15
The Role of the Old Testament in Christian Ethics
29
The Old Testament as Moral Resource
35
The Role and Importance of the Canon
43
Old Testament Narrative and Moral Address
51
The Recovery of Moral Address in Old Testament
60
Creator and Creation 242 24
71
The Character of Creation
80
Royal Ideal and Royal Reality
198
The Promise and Threat of Kingship
205
Prophetic Confrontation
240
Foundations of Prophetic Ethics
253
The Prophetic Indictment
259
The Prophetic Hope
269
Exile and Return
280
The God Who Forgives and Redeems
286

The Human Role in Creation
86
Creation as Broken and Redeemed
92
From Promise to Deliverance
105
The Birth of Israelite Community
114
The Love of
120
Moses as Agent
126
People of the Covenant
145
The Moral Dynamics of Israelite Law
157
The Shape of Covenant Community
172
Contents
191
The Renewal of Prophetic Hope
292
The Survival of Community
303
Wisdom and Morality
321
Moral Dimensions of the Wisdom Tradition
329
The Moral Limits of the Wisdom Tradition
339
Canon and Continuity
355
Index of Authors
369
Index of Scripture References
375
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Bruce C. Birch is Dean and Woodrow W. and Mildred B. Miller Professor of Biblical Theology at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. He is a contributing author to volume II of the New Interpreter's Bible and The Old Testament: A Theological Introduction.

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