The Ten commandments: the reciprocity of faithfulness

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.