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Old Testament ethics : a guided tour /
What is ethics? Ethics is not merely about tricky situations or hot topics. Instead, ethics asks questions about what sort of people we are, how we think, what sort of things we do and don't do, and how we ought to live our everyday lives. How might we learn ethics from the Old Testament? Inste...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Downers Grove, Illinois :
IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part one : Qualities. Godlikeness
- Compassion
- Honor
- Anger
- Trust
- Truthfulness
- Forthrightness
- Contentment
- Part two : Aspects of life. Mind and heart
- Wealth
- Violence
- Shalom
- Justice
- Reparation
- Sabbath
- Animals
- Work
- Part three : Relationships. Friends
- Neighbors
- Women
- Good husbands, good wives
- Who you can't have sex with
- People who can't undertake a regular marriage
- Parents and children
- Nations
- Migrants
- Cities
- Leaders
- Part four : Texts. Genesis 1 : In the beginning
- Genesis 2 : To put it another way
- Leviticus 25 : Sabbaths for the land and the Jubilee
- Deuteronomy 15 : When a family's life falls apart
- Deuteronomy 20 : How (not) to make war
- Ruth : Commitment
- Psalm 72 : The exercise of authority with faithfulness
- The Song of Songs : Sex
- Part five : People. Abraham
- Sarah and Hagar
- Joseph
- Shiphrah and Puah, Yokebed and Miryam
- David
- Nehemiah
- Vashti, Esther, and Mordecai
- Conclusion
- Postscript : But what about the Canaanites?