The deterioration of our natural environment under the impact of a rampant technological society is one of the major crises of our time. For many analysts, a primary cause of this crisis is the influence on Western culture of the Judaeo-Christian concept of the human being as having dominion over the rest of creation. In this book, Douglas John Hall does not attempt to exonerate historical Christianity from that charge. But, he argues, confession alone is not enough. The crisis of nature forces us to rethink our whole understanding of the relation between humanity and nature - an understanding that is based on the concept that human beings are created in the image of God ('imago Dei'). Hall carefully examines the biblical, historical, and theological meanings of this term, which, more than any other biblical expression, became Christianity's symbolic way of designating the essence of the human. Hall argues that the image of God is not an endowment - it is not something that human beings have; rather, it is a quality that pertains to our relationship with God. We should think of 'imago' as a verb, not a noun, he says. The human vocation within the created order is to image the Creator. When this is applied in a consistent and serious way, the idea of human dominion over all of nature must be radically reinterpreted. Taking the Lordship of Jesus as an authentic model for understanding our human relation to the natural order means that dominion is expressed not as mastery but as service - sacrificial service of the others with and for whom one is responsible. Thus the concept of dominion as stewardship eschews any idea of ownership or superiority in relation to nature, yet assumes a special accountability for its welfare. A provocative and original work, Hall's book retains the biblical centrality of 'homo sapiens' while at the same time raising both nature and God to a new kind of prominence in the dialogue that is li

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THE ORIGINAL STORY: God, Israel, and the World

Religion & Spirituality

BARTON, John, and Julia Bowden

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A twentieth-anniversary reprint of the landmark book that launched the current explosion of social-scientific studies in the biblical field. It sets forth a cultural-material methodology for reconstructing the origins of ancient Israel and offers the hypothesis that Israel emerged as an indigenous social revolutionary peasant movement. In a new preface, written for this edition, Gottwald takes account of the 'sea change' in biblical studies since 1979 as he reviews the impact of his work on church and academy, assesses its merits and limitations, indicates his present thinking on the subject, and points toward future directions in the social-critical study of ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible.

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C.S.LEWIS

Inasmuch Christian Social Responsibility in 20th Century America

David O Moberg

<p>Today, when much emphasis is placed upon united nations, united churches, and united religions, it is well for the Christian Church to be reminded and to remind itself of the finality of Christianity and its superiority over all other religions.The author of the Epistle of Hebrews does precisely that, and he does so by comparing those two religions which claim divine revelation--Judaism and Christianity. He shows that the superiority and perfection of the Christian revelation lies in the agent Himself, who is God's Son, perfect in Himself, perfect in His Knowledge of God, perfect in His function as revealer of God.Reverend T. Hewitt's remarkably compact and pithy commentary makes readily available the substance of this unique and often difficult New Testament letter.</p>

The Epistle to the Hebrews: An Introduction and Commentary (Tyndale New Testament Commentaries)

Hewitt, Thomas

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Bible Characters and Doctrines

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The Plight of Man and the Power of God

D.Martyn Lloyd Jones

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Genesis : A Devotional Commentary

W.H.Griffith Thomas

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Alfred Edersheim

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SIMPSON, E. K. & BRUCE, F. F.

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