Dictionary of scripture and ethics / Joel B. Green, general editor ; Jacqueline E. Lapsley, Rebekah Miles, and Allen Verhey, associate editors.

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, c2011.Description: xix, 889 p. ; 27 cmISBN:

9780801034060 (cloth)
080103406X (cloth)

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DDC classification:

241/.2 23

LOC classification:

BS 680 .E84D53 2011

Contents:

Ethics in Scripture / Allen Verhey -- Scipture in ethics: a history / Charles H. Cosgrove -- Scripture in ethics: methodological issues / Bruce C. Birch -- Entries.

Summary: Offers helpful orientation and perspective for students, pastors, and scholars. Written to respond to the movement among biblical scholars and ethicists to recover the Bible for moral formation, it is a reference work on the intersection of these two fields. Shows how Christian Scripture and Christian ethics are necessarily intertwined and offers up-to-date treatment of five hundred biblical, traditional, and contemporary topics, including tithing, euthanasia, the Trinity, population policy and control, healthcare systems in Scripture, the seven deadly sins, idolatry, the image of God, terrorism, the Sermon on the Mount, vegetarianism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Reference	PAC UNIVERSITY Reference	Non-fiction	REF BS 680 .E84D53 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		21125

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ethics in Scripture / Allen Verhey -- Scipture in ethics: a history / Charles H. Cosgrove -- Scripture in ethics: methodological issues / Bruce C. Birch -- Entries.

Offers helpful orientation and perspective for students, pastors, and scholars. Written to respond to the movement among biblical scholars and ethicists to recover the Bible for moral formation, it is a reference work on the intersection of these two fields. Shows how Christian Scripture and Christian ethics are necessarily intertwined and offers up-to-date treatment of five hundred biblical, traditional, and contemporary topics, including tithing, euthanasia, the Trinity, population policy and control, healthcare systems in Scripture, the seven deadly sins, idolatry, the image of God, terrorism, the Sermon on the Mount, vegetarianism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.