Reading the Bible in the Strange World of Medicine
Reading the Bible in the Strange World of Medicine

Author: Allen Verhey

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2003-12-11

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9780802822635

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Author of such major books as Remembering Jesus: Christian Community, Scripture, and the Moral Life, Allen Verhey has become one of today's most trusted Christian voices in contemporary ethics, including the moral challenges that new medical technologies pose to Christian faith and decision-making. With this new book Verhey brings the biblical tradition to bear on contemporary bioethical concerns. Drawing on an unmatched depth of insight in these two realms, Verhey explores how the Bible can illuminate and guide medical ethics. He argues that churches are called to think and speak clearly about bioethical concerns, and he lays out here the scriptural tools for them to do so. After firmly grounding Christian ethical discourse in Scripture, Verhey shows how the Bible can be applied to such pressing questions as suffering, genetic intervention, abortion, reproductive technologies, end-of-life care, physician-assisted suicide, and more. Filled with faith-based wisdom and apt illustrations of the moral dilemmas discussed, this book is a must-read for Christians grappling with the ethical dimensions of medicine today.

Essays on Ethics
Essays on Ethics

Author: Jonathan Sacks

Publisher: Maggid

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781592644490

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Why was Abraham ordered to sacrifice his son? Was Jacob right in stealing the blessings? Why were we commanded to destroy Amalek? What was Moses' sin in hitting the rock? And how did the Ten Commandments change the Jewish people, and humankind, for good? Essays on Ethics is the second companion volume to Rabbi Jonathan Sacks's celebrated series Covenant & Conversation. Believing the Hebrew Bible to be the ultimate blueprint for Western morality, Rabbi Sacks embarks upon an ethical exploration of the weekly Torah portion, uncovering its message of truth and justice, dignity and compassion, forgiveness and love.

Old Testament Ethics for the People of God
Old Testament Ethics for the People of God

Author: Christopher J. H. Wright

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 0830827781

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Christopher Wright examines a theological, social and economic framework for Old Testament ethics. Then he explores a variety of themes in relation to contemporary issues including economics, the land, the poor, politics, law and justice, and community.

An Introduction to Biblical Ethics
An Introduction to Biblical Ethics

Author: Robertson McQuilkin

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2014-06-05

Total Pages: 671

ISBN-13: 0830828184

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What should we do or not do? This comprehensive text on biblical ethics is completely revised, focusing on how we fulfill the purposes of God for our lives. New content includes discussions of living virtuously, ethical alternatives, bioethical issues, technology, helping the poor, animal rights, sexual ethics, and the media.

Reading the Bible Ethically
Reading the Bible Ethically

Author: Eric J. Douglass

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-09-11

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 9004282874

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All interpretive systems deal with the author. Modern systems consider the text to be autonomous, so that it is disconnected from the author’s interests. In Reading the Bible Ethically, Eric Douglass reconsiders this connection. His central argument is that the author is a subject who reproduces her culture and her subjectivity in the text. As the author reproduces her subjectivity, the text functions as the author’s voice. This allows Douglass to apply ethical principles to interpretation, where that voice is treated as a subject for conversation, and not an object for manipulation. He uses this to texture the reading process, so that an initial reading takes account of the author’s communication, while a second reading critiques that communication.

The Bible and Ethics
The Bible and Ethics

Author: David Gooding

Publisher: Myrtlefield House

Published:

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1874584583

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How can one book be so widely appreciated and so contested? Millions revere it and many ridicule it, but the Bible is often not allowed to speak for itself. Key Bible Concepts explores and clarifies the central terms of the Christian gospel. Gooding and Lennox provide succinct explanations of the basic vocabulary of Christian thought to unlock the Bible’s meaning and its significance for today.

An Introduction to Biblical Ethics
An Introduction to Biblical Ethics

Author: David Wayne Jones

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1433669692

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An introductory text explaining the nature, relevancy, coherency, and structure of the moral law as revealed throughout the Bible, with discussion of the Ten Commandments as a moral rubric and a subsequent application of each commandment to Christian living.

Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life
Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life

Author: Bruce C. Birch

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1451438540

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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.

Reading the Bible from the Margins
Reading the Bible from the Margins

Author: Miguel A. De La Torre

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1608333418

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This introduction focuses on how issues involving race, class, and gender influence our understanding of the Bible. Describing how "standard" readings of the Bible are not always acceptable to people or groups on the "margins," this book afters valuable new insights into biblical texts today.

The Ethical Vision of the Bible
The Ethical Vision of the Bible

Author: Peter W. Gosnell

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0830864792

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This introduction to the world of biblical ethics walks readers through the ethical teachings of key people and texts within the Bible. Instead of focusing on what the Bible says about various ethical issues, it emphasizes how the different parts of the Bible encourage its readers to think ethically about every issue.