Biblical ethics and social change / Stephen Charles Mott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mott, Stephen Charles.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian ethics.

Social ethics.

Ethics in the Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This scholarly synthesis of biblical studies and Christian social ethics is designed to provide a biblical argument for intentional institutional change on behalf of social justice. Stephen Charles Mott provides a biblical and ethical guide on ways to implement that change. The first part of the book, providing the biblical theology of intentional social change, deals with the central concepts in biblical and theological ethics: grace, evil, love, justice, and the Reign of God. Christian social change must be rooted not only in justice, but in the grace received through the death and resurrect

Contents:

pt. 1. A Biblical theology of social involvement

pt. 2. Paths to justice.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-020787-6

0-19-025839-X

1-283-09836-9

9786613098368

0-19-985769-5

OCLC:

721195534