The Bible in Government and Society
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Overview
The Bible in Government and Society explores biblical perspectives on issues like human rights, the sanctity of life, church and state, social responsibility, environmental concerns, sexuality and marriage, parental responsibility, plurality of ideas, self-defense, just war, and the impact of end-times prophecy on politics. This volume attempts to fairly represent contemporary cultural challenges and their biblical responses, and makes the case that the Bible is timeless and relevant for any era, providing answers and hope for every aspect of life.
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- Provides biblical perspectives on contemporary political and social issues
- Asserts the sufficiency of Scripture
- Artificial Color Is Not an Ingredient of Love
- Human Rights and the Dignity of Human Life
- God’s Sovereignty, Our Responsibility
- Contextualizing Jesus’ Words
- The Bible, Government and Social Justice
- The ‘Menu’ Problem in Handling Jesus’ Words
- The Inherent Limitation of Government
- Sexuality, Christian Ethics, and the State
- Marriage and the State
- Marriage, the Bible and the State
- Parental Discipline and Law
- Discipline as Instruction, Not Retribution
- Metaphysical Presuppositions in Environmental Thought
- Environmental Considerations in Biblical Thought
- On Plurality of Ideas: Society Works Better When We All Agree (With Me)
- Issues of Conscience
- A Time to Kill: Self Defense and Just War
- Faith and the Academy: Faith Goes to College, What Comes Home?
- Are We Under the Mosaic Law?
- Eschatology, Politics, and Society: Absence (of the Kingdom) Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
- Personal Eschatology: The Beginning Is the End
Top Highlights
“When we adjust or formulate our theology with the intention of resolving problems of practice, instead of looking to the entire comprehensive and cohesive revelation of God—with His diagnoses and prescriptions—we are asking for trouble. History is littered with diagnosticians who have prescribed for the symptom without recognizing the core disease. Further, trying to follow the guidebook, but giving special attention to some sections over others is a surefire recipe for misdiagnosis and consequently derives disastrous theology and confused practice.” (Page 9)
“The accreditation of marriage has led to a de-solemnizing of the contract. There is disconnect between the verbal contract (vows), including the phrases ‘as long as you both shall live,’ and ‘’til death do us part,’ for example, and the legal union, whose severing can be casually justified by, among other things, irreconcilable differences.” (Pages 91–92)
“If government can grant rights, then government can restrict them—government can control them. Government then becomes the arbiter of human behavior beyond the letter of the Declaration and the Constitution, and its jurisdiction is unbounded.” (Pages 47–48)
“The Bible is theocentric, rather than anthropocentric. Consequently, human rights as represented in the Bible are not endowed on the basis of anthropocentric principles, but rather theocentric ones.” (Page 16)
“Government is not ordained to promote righteous character in people, rather it is a God-ordained instrument to punish the guilty and protect the innocent.” (Pages 82–83)
- Title: The Bible in Government and Society
- Author: Christopher Cone
- Publisher: Tyndale
- Publication Date: 2012
- Pages: 267
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