The Decalogue and a Human Future: The Meaning of the Commandments for Making and Keeping Human Life Human

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1995 - 232 pagini
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Building on a long career in the field of Christian ethics, Paul Lehmann here examines the role of the Ten Commandments in Christian life. Driven by the fundamental ethical question What am I as a believer in Jesus Christ and as a member of his church to do?, Lehmann moves beyond the inadequacies of both an ethic of law and a utilitarian ethic to his unique proposal of a contextual ethic grounded in the concept of koinonia. Part One discusses the commandments generally while focusing on insights from sociology regarding the structure of human life. Part Two takes up each commandment individually as a springboard for discussing critical issues in today's world.

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Introduction
1
Disregard Disarray and Discovery
13
On Not Keeping the Commandments
15
Rediscovering Luther
19
Catching Up with Brother Martin
25
Beyond Hierarchy and Equality
31
Sharp Swords for Rusty Ones
40
An Assist from Macrosociology
44
Of God and Creation The Right Tablet of Moses The First Second and Third Commandments
95
The First Commandment YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BESIDES ME
96
The Heart Becomes Religion and Trust Becomes Process The Second Commandment YOU SHALL NOT GO ABOUT WITH THE NAME OF GOD ...
101
The Feminist Repudiation of Patriarchal Cooptation
111
The Third Commandment YOU SHALL MAKE A DAY FOR CELEBRATION HOLY
145
The Family Abortion and Homosexuality The Fourth Fifth and Sixth Commandments The Left Tablet of Moses
149
The Fourth Commandment YOU SHALL HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER
150
The Fifth Commandment YOU SHALL NOT KILL
163

Hive Anthill or Human Community
48
The Structural Realism of the Decalogue
55
Reciprocal Responsibility and the Decalogue
63
Apperception Structure and Responsibility
66
The Structural Realism of the Decalogue
79
Pathways and Patterns of Reciprocal Responsibility
83
Prologue
85
Luther and the Bible
89
The Question of Homosexuality The Sixth Commandment YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY
172
Property False Witness Vocation and Belonging The Seventh Eighth Ninth and Tenth Commandments Christianity and Property The Seventh Comm...
179
The Eighth Commandment YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST YOUR NEIGHBOR
199
The Ninth and Tenth Commandments YOU SHALL NOT COVET
207
Concluding Comments
224
Index
228
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