Biblical Ethics: Tensions Between Justice and Mercy, Law and Love

Published by Gorgias Press 2019

Biblical Ethics

Tensions Between Justice and Mercy, Law and Love

Edited by: Markus Zehnder and Peter Wick

https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463239466

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Biblical theology is confronted with tensions between love and justice. There are sometimes attempts to avoid these tensions by dissolving one side of the opposing concept. One such attempt is to identify love and mercy as the essence of Christian theology, overcoming law and reciprocal justice. However, such a dissolution is irresponsible not only ethically, but also theologically—as the discussion in a number of the studies collected in the present volume will demonstrate.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
INTRODUCTION Markus Zehnder and Peter Wick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Love in both Testaments
LOVE IN THE BIBLE, AND LAW, JUSTICE, AND MERCY: SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE SEMANTIC PROFILE OF THE MAIN HEBREW AND GREEK TERMS DENOTING ‘LOVE’, WITH A SPECIAL VIEW ON THE INTERSECTION WITH TERMS DENOTING ‘LAW’, ‘JUSTICE’ AND ‘MERCY’ Markus Zehnder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
LOVE: THE FULFILLMENT OF THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS Carol J. Dempsey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Love and Justice in the Old Testament
WHY LOVE MATTERS FOR JUSTICE: POLITICAL EMOTIONS BETWEEN NARRATIVE AND LAW IN THE HOLINESS CODE Paavo N. Tucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
THE CONCEPT OF LOVE AS “ETHICAL EMOTION” IN DEUTERONOMY Dorothea Erbele-Küster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
JUSTICE AND MERCY IN PROVERBS: CAN IT BE? Glenn Pemberton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Law and Love at the Intersection of the Old and New Testament
HOSPITALITY: THE NEXUS BETWEEN LAW AND LOVE Mary J. Marshall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
THE UNITY OF LAW AND LOVE IN PSALM 119: A CHRISTIAN READING Rebecca Burgess Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
A MARRIAGE OF LAW AND LOVE: AN EXPLORATION OF A DIALOGUE BETWEEN RUTH AND PAUL Meghan D. Musy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Justice and Mercy in the Connection between the Two Testaments
FORGIVENESS AS THE IMAGE OF THE MERCIFUL AND JUST GOD Luke Ben Tallon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
THE DYNAMIC POLARITY BETWEEN JUSTICE AND MERCY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT FORMULA OF GRACE (EX 34:6) AND THE PARABLE OF THE UNFORGIVING SERVANT (MT 18:23–35) Jens-Christian Maschmeier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Law and Love in the New Testament
PAUL’S ETHICS AND PAUL’S EXPERIENCE: LAW AND LOVE IN GALATIANS Sean Winter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Justice and Mercy in the New Testament
‘REVENGE IS MINE, I WILL PAY BACK’– HAS MERCY NOT THE LAST WORD, AFTER ALL? READING ROMANS 12:19 AS PART OF AN IMPLICIT DISCOURSE OF JUSTICE AND MERCY Dorothea H. Bertschmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
LOVE FOR ENEMIES, JUSTICE AND THE CONCEPT OF RECIPROCITY IN PAUL (ROM 12:17–21) AND MATTHEW (MT 5:43–48) Jens-Christian Maschmeier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
MERCY AND JUSTICE OR MERCY WITHOUT JUSTICE? COMPARING JAMES AND 1 PETER Martin I. Webber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
BETWEEN PARTIALITY AND MERCY. TENSIONS IN THE ETHICS OF THE LETTER OF JAMES Peter Wick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335

Language: English
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 349

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Published: January 2, 2019
ISBN: 9781463239466