Let justice roll down : the Old Testament, ethics, and Christian life
This is a volume on the Old Testament and Christian ethics. It attempts to relate the testimonies and stories of Israel's faith as recorded in the Hebrew canon to the character and conduct of Christians and the Christian community in our own time. It tries to bridge from the Old Testament as ancient testimony to the need for moral resources in the modern church as it faces the ethical issues of a complex and challenging time. The task here is not to discuss those issues as such, but to select and focus elements of the Old Testament traditions that can inform and undergird the tasks of Christian ethics related to any set of specific issues. Simply put, the purpose of this volume is to make the Old Testament more readily accessible to the concerns of Christian ethics in the life of the church and to scholars in the service of the church. In the dialogue between scripture and Christian ethics this volume attempts to clarify and give fuller voice to the scripture pole of the dialogue by making the Old Testament more fully available to the Christian life as a moral resource. - Introduction
eBook, English, c1991
Westminster/John Knox Press, Louisville, Ky., c1991
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (383 pages)
1150217302
Introduction
Part one : Method and approach. 1. The role of the Old Testament in Christian ethics
2. Old Testament narrative and moral address
Part two : The Old Testament story as moral resource. 3. Creator and creation
4. From promise to deliverance
5. People of the covenant
6. Royal ideal and royal reality
7. Prophetic confrontation
8. Exile and return
9. Wisdom and morality
Epilogue : Canon and continuity
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