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Corporal punishment in the Bible : a redemptive-movement hermeneutic for troubling texts / William J. Webb ; foreword by I. Howard Marshall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Webb, William J., 1957- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible--Hermeneutics.
- Bible.
- Corporal punishment--Biblical teaching.
- Corporal punishment.
- Corporal punishment--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- William Webb confronts those often-avoided biblical passages that call for the corporal punishment of children, slaves, and wrongdoers. How should we understand and apply those injunctions? Are we obligated to replicate them today? Building on the findings of his previous work in Slaves, Women & Homosexuals, Webb argues that a redemptive hermeneutic points us to God's ultimate ethic and enables us to remain truly biblical.
- Contents:
- Biblical texts, ethical dilemmas and hermeneutical inconsistencies
- The slavery texts : a redemptive-movement model
- The rod and whip texts : a Biblical basis for going beyond
- What about adult corporal punishment?
- What about using only noncorporal methods for children?
- Conclusion : dare to read the Bible differently
- Postscript : an unplanned parenting journey
- Appendix : a response to Andreas Kastenberger.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780830869022
- 0830869026
- OCLC:
- 923183978
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