Description:This collection brings together legal professionals and theologians to assess the significance and function of civil law in the Bible. Rich in close readings of Scripture, Law and the Bible gives Christian law students and legal practitioners the tools to bring a critically reflective biblical understanding to their practice of civil law.CONTENTS:Foreword by John Witte Jr.Introduction1. The Biblical Foundations of Law: Creation, Fall and the Patriarchs - Randy Beck and David VanDrunen2. Law and Political Order: Israel’s Constitutional History - William S. Brewbaker III and V. Philips Long3. Civil Law in the Torah: The Mosaic Law in Christian Perspective - David Skeel and Tremper Longman III4. The Law of Life: Law in the Wisdom Literature - Roger P. Alford and Leslie M. Alford5. Crying Out for Justice: Civil Law and the Prophets - Barbara Armacost and Peter Enns6. The Kingdom of God, Law and the Heart: Jesus and the Civil Law - Robert F. Cochran Jr. and Dallas Willard7. Civil Law and Civil Disobedience: The Early Church and the Law - Joel A. Nichols and James W. McCarty III8. Living as Christians Under Civil Law: The New Testament Letters, Law and Politics - David M. Smolin and Kar Yong Lim9. Expectation and Consummation: Law in Eschatological Perspective - John Copeland Nagle and Keith A. MathisonAcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsGeneral IndexScripture IndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Law and the Bible: Justice, Mercy and Legal Institutions. To get started finding Law and the Bible: Justice, Mercy and Legal Institutions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
269
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
InterVarsity Press
Release
2013
ISBN
0830895590
Law and the Bible: Justice, Mercy and Legal Institutions
Description: This collection brings together legal professionals and theologians to assess the significance and function of civil law in the Bible. Rich in close readings of Scripture, Law and the Bible gives Christian law students and legal practitioners the tools to bring a critically reflective biblical understanding to their practice of civil law.CONTENTS:Foreword by John Witte Jr.Introduction1. The Biblical Foundations of Law: Creation, Fall and the Patriarchs - Randy Beck and David VanDrunen2. Law and Political Order: Israel’s Constitutional History - William S. Brewbaker III and V. Philips Long3. Civil Law in the Torah: The Mosaic Law in Christian Perspective - David Skeel and Tremper Longman III4. The Law of Life: Law in the Wisdom Literature - Roger P. Alford and Leslie M. Alford5. Crying Out for Justice: Civil Law and the Prophets - Barbara Armacost and Peter Enns6. The Kingdom of God, Law and the Heart: Jesus and the Civil Law - Robert F. Cochran Jr. and Dallas Willard7. Civil Law and Civil Disobedience: The Early Church and the Law - Joel A. Nichols and James W. McCarty III8. Living as Christians Under Civil Law: The New Testament Letters, Law and Politics - David M. Smolin and Kar Yong Lim9. Expectation and Consummation: Law in Eschatological Perspective - John Copeland Nagle and Keith A. MathisonAcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsGeneral IndexScripture IndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Law and the Bible: Justice, Mercy and Legal Institutions. To get started finding Law and the Bible: Justice, Mercy and Legal Institutions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.