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Conference Sheffield Colloquium (2nd : 1995 : University of Sheffield)

Title The Bible in ethics : the Second Sheffield Colloquium / edited by John W. Rogerson, Margaret Davies & M. Daniel Carroll R.

Publication Info. Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description 1 online resource (379 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 207
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 207.
Note Papers presented at the international colloquium held in the Dept. of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield, Apr. 1995.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Discourse ethics and Biblical ethics / John Rogerson -- From law to virtue and back again: on Veritatis splendor / John Haldane -- Ideology, theology and sociology: from Kautsky to Meeks / Mark D. Chapman -- Reading for life: the use of the Bible in ethics and the work of Martha C. Nussbaum / John Barton -- Ethics as deconstruction, and, the ethics of deconstruction / David Clines -- Theological education as a Theory-Praxis Loop: situating the Book of Joshua in a cultural, social ethical, and theological matrix / Norman K. Gottwald -- Divine character and the formation of moral community in the Book of Exodus / Bruce C. Birch -- Nationalism and the Hebrew Bible / Mark G. Brett -- Ethics and the Old Testament / Philip R. Davies -- And the dumb do speak: articulating incipient readings of the Bible in marginalized communities / Gerald West -- Bible and the religious identity of the Maya of Guatemala at the conquest and today: considerations and challenges for the nonindigenous / M. Daniel Carroll R. -- Gospel, the poor and the churches: attitudes to poverty in the British churches and Biblical exegesis / Christopher Rowland -- New Testament and the ethics of cultural compromise: Compromiso with the God of life or compromise with the ideology of power? / Sharon H. Ringe -- Ethics of Biblical violence against women / J. Cheryl Exum -- Sex and gender ethics as New Testament ethics / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- You shall open your hand to your needy brother: ideology and moral formation in Deut. 15.1-18 / Walter Houston -- Work and slavery in the New Testament: impoverishments of traditions / Margaret Davies -- How the Spirit reads and how to read the Spirit / Stephen Fowl.
Summary The Bible has influenced contemporary culture both positively and negatively. The present volume is a collection of papers that were discussed at an international colloquium on the use of the Bible in Ethics in the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield in April 1995. Participants came from many parts of the world and from different backgrounds, and the papers reflect their varied interests and the contexts in which they work. The contributors, in addition to the three editors, are John Barton, Bruce Birch, Mark Brett, Mark Chapman, David Clines, Philip Davies, Cheryl Ex.
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Subject Ethics in the Bible -- Congresses.
Ethics in the Bible.
Ethics -- Congresses.
Ethics.
Indexed Term Christianity Ethics
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Rogerson, J. W. (John William), 1935-2018.
Davies, Margaret, 1941-
Carroll R., M. Daniel.
Other Form: Print version: Sheffield Colloquium (2nd : 1995 : University of Sheffield). Bible in ethics. Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, ©1995 1850755736 9781850755739 (DLC) 96114834 (OCoLC)35842678
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