Bloody, Brutal, and Barbaric?
Subtitle: Wrestling with Troubling War Texts
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780830852499
Subjects: War, religious aspects
Description: "Christians cannot ignore the intersection of religion and violence. In our own Scriptures, war texts that appear to approve of genocidal killings and war rape raise hard questions about biblical ethics and the character of God. Have we missed something in our traditional readings? Identifying a spectrum of views on biblical war texts, Webb and Oeste pursue a middle path using a hermeneutic of incremental, redemptive-movement ethics"--