What does the Lord require? : the Old Testament call to social witness
"Christian social concern requires not only that we ask what we should do in a broken world but also that we ask who we are to be." Bruce C. Birch pursues this idea to its roots in the Old Testament, challenging today's Christians to strengthen their faith by a deeper understanding of their biblical inheritance. He looks at the Old Testament...
Print Book, English, ©1985
Westminster Press, Philadelphia, ©1985
119 pages ; 21 cm
9780664246303, 0664246303
11621690
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