What does the Lord require? : the Old Testament call to social witness /
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| Author / Creator: | Birch, Bruce C. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Philadelphia : Westminster Press, ©1985. |
| Description: | 119 pages ; 21 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13190922 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. In the image of God
- The Old Testament as scripture
- In the beginning
- The God who creates and blesses
- The creation and the creatures
- The brokenness of creation
- Toward the promise
- 2. From promise to deliverance
- The call to sojourn
- The God who saves
- Exodus as liberation
- Exodus as a pattern of faith
- Salvation as physical and spiritual
- 3. You shall be my people
- An alternative community of covenant
- The covenant God
- The politics of covenant
- The economics of covenant
- On to Sinai
- 4. Like the other nations
- Make us a king
- Royal ideal and royal reality
- Messengers to the nation
- 5. By the waters of Babylon
- The meaning of exile
- Singing the Lord's song
- Behold my servant
- 6. Sages, visionaries, and poets
- Return and restoration
- By wisdom God founded the earth
- Terrors and visions
- Jesus Christ is our peace.