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3 lis 2010 · The book sets out the basic theoretical legal propositions on which biblical law rests, including the character of biblical law, covenant, natural law, and ideas of justice.
God, Justice, and Society shows how, in Biblical law, the three named topics were interrelated. Biblical law was not a set of rules in the same way as a modern legislative code. By contrast, the pursuit of Biblical law is to be seen as the search for wisdom, which flows from God.
The biblical concept of righteousness and law is based on the conviction that God is the righteous judge whose judges the earth with his impartiality and bestows his own righteousness to those who live in accordance with his will and commandments.
There are two things that almost everyone knows about biblical law—that Abraham’s descendants are a “chosen people” and that God gave Moses “the Ten Commandments.”
This chapter shows how a biblical ideology of divine ownership affects the practice of land tenure and land use. The close connections in biblical Israel between people, land, and narrative means that the biblical law of property is dynamic, not least in the area of inheritance.
Operating on the delusion that all people can reach godhood, many today believe that Christ exists in every person and that He is simply waiting to be discovered. Christ has become a generic term for whatever god one wants to believe in.
3 lis 2010 · In God, Justice, and Society, Jonathan Burnside looks at aspects of law and legality in the Bible, from the patriarchal narratives in the Hebrew Bible through to the trials of Jesus in the New...
