Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life : A New Conversation （3RD）

Birch, Bruce C./ Lapsley, Jacqueline E./ Moe-Lobeda, Cynthia D.

Fortress Press,U.S.（2018/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780800697617
• DDC分類 241

Full Description

Earth is changing in ways it hasn't for hundreds of thousands of years. At the same time, Christianity is breaking away from its millennium-long geographical and cultural center in the Euro-West. Its growth is in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, primarily in Pentecostal, evangelical, and independent churches. These dramatically changed planetary and ecclesial landscapes have led many to conclude that we need a new way of thinking about our collective existence: who are we and what is the nature of our responsibility in this deeply altered world? To address that question, biblical scholars Bruce C. Birch and Jacqueline E. Lapsley and Christian ethicists Larry L. Rasmussen and Cynthia Moe-Lobeda carry on "a new conversation" that engages how Christians are to understand the authority and use of Scripture, the basic elements of any full-bodied Christian ethic attuned to our circumstances, and the nature of our responsibility to our planetary neighbors and creation itself.

Contents

IntroductionPart I. The Bible as Moral Witness1. A Two-Part Consensus2. Foundations of the Biblical Text in Community Witness3. Biblical Authority4. Interpreting the Biblical WitnessPart II. Elements of the Moral Life5. What Are Morality, Ethics, and Christian Ethics?6. Moral Formation7. Moral Discernment and ActionPart III. The Bible, Ethics, and the Moral Life8. Witness and Practice9. The Church and the Moral LifeSummary and Challenge