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Bible and ethics in the Christian life : a new conversation / Bruce C. Birch, Jacqueline E. Lapsley, Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, and Larry L. Rasmussen.

By: Birch, Bruce C [author.]
Contributor(s): Rasmussen, Larry L [author.] | Moe-Lobeda, Cynthia D, 1954- [author.] | Lapsley, Jacqueline E, 1965- [author.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : Augsburg Fortress, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xxii, 296 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0800697618; 9780800697617Subject(s): Ethics in the Bible | Christian ethics | Christian lifeBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-282) and indexes.
Contents:
The Bible as moral witness -- A two-part consensus -- Foundations of the biblical text in community witness -- Biblical authority -- Interpreting the biblical witness -- Elements of the moral life -- What are morality, ethics, and Christian ethics? -- Moral formation -- Moral discernment and action -- part III. The Bible, ethics, and the moral life -- Witness and practice -- The church and the moral life -- Summary and challenge.

"...Birch and Rasmussen were asked if they would consider a third edition of their volume...they offered an alternative : a new book...not, however, a revision of the earlier volumes..." -- Preface, page x.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-282) and indexes.

Part I. The Bible as moral witness -- 1. A two-part consensus -- 2. Foundations of the biblical text in community witness -- 3. Biblical authority -- 4. Interpreting the biblical witness -- part II. Elements of the moral life -- 5. What are morality, ethics, and Christian ethics? -- 6. Moral formation -- 7. Moral discernment and action -- part III. The Bible, ethics, and the moral life -- 8. Witness and practice -- 9. The church and the moral life -- 10. Summary and challenge.

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