Deut. 15:7-11 records instructions from Moses’ to the Israelites about the treatment of the poor in the promised land. The thesis of this paper is that although these instructions are found in the midst of civil and ceremonial laws, they are yet profoundly moral in character, eschatological in orientation and binding in their principle for the New Testament church.
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Review essay on Joseph Mendola's Goodness and Justice.
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Religious Studies Review
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PhD Thesis Sydney College of Divinity
This chapter ends this study. What follows is a brief summary of its four parts, a discussion of the achievements of its purposes, the gaps it has addressed, a brief consideration of its ongoing validity, indications for further research, and a concluding statement.
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Nebraska Symposium on Motivation. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation
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Prepare for Persecution: Lessons from Acts
The global church today faces significant challenges, even in lands once renowned for religious freedom. Pastors, leaders, and laypeople must navigate the following questions: • How should Christians respond to mandates by governments to close churches or limit attendance? • How can believers continue to witness for Christ in this Orwellian age of cancel culture, in which simply stating a biblical position can be deemed “hate speech?” • What sources of information are reliable in the face of mounting media dishonesty and anti-Christian propaganda? • When should Christians risk going to jail for what they believe? Like the warning on some airplanes goes, “Your nearest way of escape may be behind you.” Beyond simply pointing a way of escape, Prepare for Persecution: Lessons from Acts guides today’s believers through the example of Jesus’ disciples. The early church overcame persecution again and again in the pages of the Acts of the Apostles—witnessing as they went, in the comfort and power of the Holy Spirit. This book chronicles nine key storylines of Acts. Each chapter concludes with “Applications for the Church Today,” and “For Further Discussion,” making them ideal for weekly Bible studies. ISBN: 978-1-62586-191-7 Published by Credo House, 2021
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The two chapters of Part 4 illustrate the methodology developed in the preceding chapters. Each applies it to a single precept of the Decalogue. Chapter 8 examines the Preface. Chapter 9 examines the sixth precept. Each chapter assembles and applies a two-dimensional table (found at the end of each chapter). The first dimension of each table addresses the transformation of mind and heart. It allows the derivation of outcomes specific to each precept and associates them with the domains of learning. The second dimension allows the derivation of components of virtues from the selected precept. The chapters propose some simple and basic level outcomes. Associated passages of Scripture validate and illustrate the outcomes.
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Justice, and its pursuit, has become a regular point of contention within Christian communities and their ambitions to take the moral life seriously. To pursue justice, it is often assumed, requires either a capitulation to a purely secular enterprise in which the distinctives of the Christian faith are abandoned, or can only be applied within parochial and quite limited circumstances appropriately judged to be “Christian.” Though justice is not difficult to find in the pages of Scripture, such construals find it difficult to see what justice has to do with central themes of the Christian faith, like grace and love. At best, justice is a sometimes-permissible distraction from love and the display of grace, and it only displays elements of divine wrath. It certainly does not have anything to do with the noble aspects of Christian discipleship. It is the ambition of this article to show, insofar as the short summary above tells a true story, that this state of affairs is deeply mistaken. Far from being inconsistent with grace and love, Christian justice is grounded in and defined by grace and love. Not only is there no incompatibility between justice and the gospel, but justice is the necessary moral outflow of a life correctly shaped by the reception of grace and the pursuit of love. In short, my argument will be this: justice is defined by the worth bestowed by the gift of Christ and is the appropriate pursuit of those in whose hearts the love of the Holy Spirit has been poured forth (Rom 5:5). To make the case, section one will exposit Nicholas Wolterstorff’s view of the nature of justice, maintaining that though it properly understands the central dynamics of justice, it does not adequately ground them. Section two will provide this grounding with reference to John Barclay’s theology of grace. Both authors care deeply about worth and make this concept central to their proposals; an inherent and intuitive bridge exists, I shall maintain, between them, one that fortifies each view. Finally, I shall conclude with an Augustinian proposal about the motivations available for the pursuit of justice, motivations never separated from the convictions central to the Christian faith. At each step, then, one discovers that justice is not an enemy to the gospel; if the argument below succeeds, justice is an indispensable outflow from the reception of the gift of Christ. Far from a distraction to the principal characteristics of the Christian faith, it is an essential component of that faith.
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Anderson's book does a masterful job of tracing the theory and practice of almsgiving from the Old Testament through Second Temple Judaism and the tradition of the Church.
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