Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
The Old Testament and the Good Life
Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
ISBN: 978-1-4813-1288-2
Verlag: Baylor University Press
The question of the good life - what it looks like for people and societies to be well ordered and flourishing - has universal significance, but its proposed solutions are just as far reaching. At the core of this concern is the nature of the good itself: what is "right"? We must attend to this ethical dilemma before we can begin to envision a life lived to the fullest.
With Seeking What Is Right, Iain Provan invites us to consider how Scripture - the Old Testament in particular - can aid us in this quest. In rooting the definition of the good in God's special revelation, Provan moves beyond the constraints of family, tribe, culture, state, or nature. When we read ourselves into the story of Scripture, we learn a formative ethic that speaks directly to our humanity. Provan delves into Western Christian history to demonstrate the various ways this has been done: how our forebears identified with the narrative of God's people, Israel, and how they applied the Old Testament to their particular times and concerns. This serves as a foundation upon which modern Christians can assess their decisions as people who read the whole biblical story "from the beginning" in our time.
Provan challenges us to grapple with ethical issues dominating our contemporary culture as a people in exile, a people formed by disciplines steeped in the patterns and teachings of Scripture. To come alongside ancient Israel in its own experiences of exile, to listen with Israel to the utterances of a holy God, is to approach a true picture of the good life that illuminates all facets of human existence. Provan helps us understand how we should and should not read Scripture in arriving at these conclusions, clarifying for the faithful Christian what the limits of the search for "what is right" look like.
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- 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 Mu¨nster
- 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
