Seeking What Is Right: The Old Testament and the Good Life

ISBN-13: 9781481312882 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 500 str.

Iain Provan

Spis treści

• Part 1. Foundations
• 1 The Good Life and How to Recognize It
• A Short Introduction
• 2 The Twenty-Five Percent Bible
• Scripture and the Good Life
• 3 In the Beginning
• Design, Sin, and Redundancy
• Part 2. Explorations
• 4 The Emperor's New Clothes
• Constantine as Biblical Hero
• 5 Not Wholly Roman
• The Carolingian Empire
• 6 Journey to the Center of the Earth
• The First Crusade and Jerusalem
• 7 The Foulness of Fornication
• Sex and Marriage in John Calvin's Geneva
• 8 Apocalypse Now
• The New Jerusalem in Münster
• 9 Men of Blood
• The English Revolution
• 10 A City upon a Hill
• The Godly Republic in New England
• 11 God's Servant for Your Good
• Tyranny, Freedom, and Right Government
• 12 Conceived in Liberty?
• Race, Slavery, and the People Of God
• 13 A Monstrous Regiment?
• The Vocation and Rights of Women
• 14 Staying Alive
• Jews, Palestinians, and the Holy Land
• 15 On Looking After the Garden
• The Good Life and Environmental Ethics
• Part 3. Conclusions
• 16 The Sword of the Spirit
• The Cutting Edge of Biblical Ethics
• 17 The Moral Maze of the Moment
• A Brief Guide for the Perplexed
• 18 Who Am I?
• Questions of Identity
• 19 The Landscape of Exile
• On Living in Dangerous Times
• 20 The Disciplines of Exile
• On Hearts and Minds