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The Ten commandments: the reciprocity of faithfulness
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Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date
c2004
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English
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From the Book - 1st ed.
Divine command and beyond: the ethics of the commandments / Patrick D. Miller
Section 1. HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION: A SAMPLING
The Decalogue in the New Testament / Reginald H. Fuller
Law in the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas / Michael Dauphinais and Matthew Levering
The moral precepts of the old law / Thomas Aquinas
Martin Luther and the Rabbinic mind / George Lindbeck
How Christians should regard Moses / Martin Luther
Reformed explication of the Ten Commandments / John P. Burgess
On the Law and the Commandments / John Calvin
The two Testaments in the Anabaptist tradition / Stuart Murray
Three radical reformers on the Decalogue / Andreas Karlstadt, Hans Denck, and Peter Riedemann
Section 2. CONTEMPORARY REFLECTIONS ON THE DECALOGUE
The obedience of trust: recovering the Law as gift / Marty Stevens
Biblical Law and the origins of democracy / Jean Louis Ska
Should the Ten Commandments be posted in the public realm? Why the Bible and the Constitution say, "No" / Nancy J. Duff
Section 3. CONTEMPORARY REFLECTIONS ON THE COMMANDMENTS
The first commandment as a theological and ethical principle / Paul E. Capetz
"The work of human hands" (Psalm 115:4): Idolatry in the Old Testament / John Barton
The fundamental code illustrated: the third commandment / Herbert B. Huffmon
A palace in time / Abraham J. Heschel
The fourth commandment as test case in Christian "plain sense" interpretation / Kathryn Greene-McCreight
No contempt for the family / Walter J. Harrelson
"Thou shalt not kill"-the first commandment of the Just War tradition / Gary M. Simpson
Adultery, prophetic tradition, and the Decalogue / Hendrick Bosman
The eighth commandment: a way to King's "Beloved Community?" / Cheryl B. Anderson
Truth-telling as subversive obedience / Walter Brueggemann
"Coveting your neighbour's house" in social context / Marvin L. Chaney.
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9780664223236
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