num_pages: 288
description: What is ethics? Ethics is not merely about tricky situations or hot topics. Instead ethics asks questions about what sort of people we are how we think what sort of things we do and don't do and how we ought to live our everyday lives. How might we learn ethics from the Old Testament? Instead of searching for support for our positions or pointing out problems with certain passages trusted guide John Goldingay urges us to let the Old Testament itself set the agenda. In this volume readers will encounter what the Old Testament teaches about relationships work Sabbath character and more. Featuring Goldingay's own translation and discussion questions for group use Old Testament Ethics: A Guided Tour is a resource for ethics like no other. Topically organized with short stand-alone chapters this book is one to keep close at hand.
language: English
title: Old Testament Ethics: A Guided Tour
publisher: IVP Academic