Celebrating The Law?: Rethinking Old Testament Ethics - Softcover

Lalleman, Hetty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842272659 ISBN 13: 9781842272657

Publisher: Authentic Media, 2004

Synopsis

Christians often see the Old Testament law as out of date and irrelevant now that Christ has come. Lalleman rejects this view and makes the case for the ongoing importance of the Law in the Christian life something to celebrate.

Most helpfully, Lalleman sets out a model for interpretating Old Testament laws in the context of the whole of the Bible. She interacts with the scholarly literature on the subject in a very readable way and provides some basic biblical

principles for integrating the whole of God's word in our lives. Lalleman then fleshes out these principles by applying them to three difficult topics in Old Testament law: food laws, the cancellation of debts, and warfare. At the heart of this celebration of the law, she contends, is the wholeness, holiness, and integrity of God himself.

Features:

• Shows how God calls us to be his distinctive people displaying the same wholeness, holiness, and integrity as he himself has.

• Rethinks Old Testament ethics using both creation and covenant as a framework.

• Emphasizes the relationship between the individual and the community. Up-to-date scholarship in an accessible form.

About this title

About the Author

Hetty Lalleman is an associate lecturer in Old Testament Studies in Spurgeon's College, London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Authentic Media
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1842272659
• ISBN 13: 9781842272657
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 151