Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics

Editor/Author Green, Joel B., Lapsley, Jacqueline E. and Miles, Rebekah, et.al.
Publication Year: 2011
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group

Single-User Purchase Price: $59.95
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ISBN: 978-0-80-103406-0
Category: Religion & Theology - Christianity
Book Status: Available
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This one-stop reference book on the vital relationship between Scripture and ethics offers helpful orientation and perspective for students, pastors, and scholars.

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Table of Contents

  • Contributors
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction - Joel B. Green
  • Ethics in Scripture - Allen Verhey
  • Scripture in Ethics: A History - Charles H. Cosgrove
  • Scripture in Ethics: Methodological Issues - Bruce C. Birch
  • Abortion
  • Abuse
  • Accountability
  • Acts
  • Additions to Daniel
  • Additions to Esther
  • Adoption
  • Adultery
  • Affections
  • African American Ethics
  • Agape
  • Aged, Aging
  • Alcohol
  • Aliens, Immigration, and Refugees
  • Almsgiving
  • Altruism
  • Amos
  • Anabaptist Ethics
  • Anger
  • Anglican Ethics and Moral Theology
  • Animals
  • Antichrist
  • Antinomianism
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Anxiety
  • Apartheid
  • Apostolic Fathers
  • Ars Moriendi Tradition, Use of Scripture in
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Asceticism
  • Atonement
  • Authority and Power
  • Autonomy
  • Ban, The
  • Baptist Ethics
  • Baruch
  • Beatitudes
  • Benevolence
  • Bioethics
  • Birth Control
  • Blasphemy
  • Blessing and Cursing
  • Body
  • Bribery
  • Business Ethics
  • Canon Law
  • Capitalism
  • Capital Punishment
  • Cardinal Virtues
  • Care, Caring
  • Casuistry
  • Celibacy
  • Character
  • Charity, Works of
  • Child Abuse
  • Childlessness
  • Children
  • 1–2 Chronicles
  • Circumcision
  • Civil Disobedience
  • Civil Rights
  • Class Conflict
  • Clean and Unclean
  • Collection for the Saints
  • Collective Responsibility
  • Colonialism and Postcolonialism
  • Colossians
  • Common Good
  • Comparative Religious Ethics
  • Compassion
  • Conception
  • Concubinage
  • Confession
  • Confidentiality
  • Conflict
  • Conquest
  • Conscience
  • Conscientious Objection
  • Conscientization
  • Conscription
  • Consequentialism
  • Consumerism
  • Continence
  • Contrition
  • Conversion
  • 1 Corinthians
  • 2 Corinthians
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Courage
  • Covenant
  • Covenantal Ethics
  • Creation, Biblical Accounts of
  • Creation Ethics
  • Crime and Criminal Justice
  • Cross-Cultural Ethics
  • Cruciformity
  • Cruelty
  • Culture
  • Daniel
  • Dead Sea Scrolls
  • Death, Definition of
  • Death and Dying
  • Debt
  • Deception
  • Dementia
  • Democracy
  • Deontological Theories of Ethics
  • Dependent Care
  • Desertion
  • Desire
  • Deterrence, Nuclear
  • Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal Books
  • Deuteronomistic History
  • Deuteronomy
  • Deviance
  • Didache
  • Dirty Hands
  • Disability and Handicap
  • Discernment, Moral
  • Discipline
  • Discrimination
  • Dishonesty
  • Dissent
  • Divination and Magic
  • Divine Command Theories of Ethics
  • Double Effect, Principle of
  • Dualism, Anthropological
  • Duty
  • Ecclesiastes
  • Ecclesiology and Ethics
  • Ecological Ethics
  • Economic Development
  • Economic Ethics
  • Ecumenism
  • Egalitarianism
  • Emancipation
  • Emotion
  • Empathy
  • Ends and Means
  • Enemy, Enemy Love
  • Ephesians
  • Equality
  • Eschatology and Ethics
  • Esther
  • Ethnic Identity, Ethnicity
  • Eugenics
  • Euthanasia
  • Evangelical Ethics
  • Evangelism
  • Evil
  • Excellence
  • Excommunication
  • Exile
  • Exodus
  • Exploitation
  • Ezekiel
  • Ezra
  • Faith
  • Family
  • Family Planning
  • Feminist Ethics
  • Fidelity
  • Food
  • Force, Use of
  • Forgiveness
  • Foster Care
  • Freedom
  • Free Will and Determinism
  • Friendship, Friendship Ethics
  • Fruit of the Spirit
  • Fundamentalism
  • Galatians
  • Gambling
  • Gender
  • Generosity
  • Genesis
  • Genocide
  • Globalization
  • Gluttony
  • Godliness
  • Golden Rule
  • Good, The
  • Goodness
  • Good Works
  • Government
  • Grace
  • Gratitude
  • Greed
  • Guilt
  • Habakkuk
  • Habit
  • Haggai
  • Happiness
  • Harm
  • Hatred
  • Headship
  • Health
  • Healthcare Ethics
  • Healthcare Systems in Scripture
  • Hebrews
  • Hedonism
  • Holiness
  • Holiness Code
  • Holy Spirit
  • Holy War
  • Homelessness
  • Homosexuality
  • Honesty
  • Hope
  • Hosea
  • Hospice
  • Hospitality
  • Household Codes
  • Humanitarianism
  • Humanity
  • Human Rights
  • Humility
  • Hypocrisy
  • Idolatry
  • Image of God
  • Imitation of Jesus
  • Imperialism
  • Incarnation
  • Incest
  • Individualism
  • Infanticide
  • Infertility
  • Information Technology
  • Institution(s)
  • Integrity
  • Intention
  • Isaiah
  • James
  • Jealousy and Envy
  • Jeremiah
  • Job
  • Joel
  • John
  • 1–3 John
  • Jonah
  • Joshua
  • Jubilee
  • Jude
  • Judges
  • Judgment
  • Judith
  • Justice
  • Justice, Distributive
  • Justice, Restorative
  • Justice, Retributive
  • Justification, Moral
  • Just-Peacemaking Theory
  • Just Wage
  • Just-War Theory
  • Killing
  • Kingdom of God
  • 1–2 Kings
  • Koinonia
  • Lamentations
  • Land
  • Latino/Latina Ethics
  • Law
  • Law, Civil and Criminal
  • Law, Uses of
  • Law and Gospel
  • Leadership, Leadership Ethics
  • Legalism
  • Letter of Jeremiah
  • Leviticus
  • Libel
  • Liberation
  • Liberationist Ethics
  • Libertinism
  • Liturgy and Ethics
  • Loans
  • Love, Love Command
  • Loyalty
  • Luke
  • Lust
  • Lutheran Ethics
  • 1 Maccabees
  • 2 Maccabees
  • Malachi
  • Malice
  • Manipulation
  • Mark
  • Markets
  • Marriage and Divorce
  • Martyrdom
  • Materialism
  • Matthew
  • Media, Ethical Issues of
  • Meekness
  • Mental Health
  • Mercy
  • Micah
  • Military Service
  • Monism, Anthropological
  • Moral Absolutes
  • Moral Agency
  • Moral Development
  • Moral Formation
  • Moral Law
  • Moral Psychology
  • Motive(s)
  • Murder
  • Mutual Aid
  • Nahum
  • Narrative Ethics, Biblical
  • Narrative Ethics, Contemporary
  • Nationalism
  • Natural Law
  • Natural Rights
  • Necromancy
  • Nehemiah
  • Neighbor, Neighbor Love
  • New Testament Ethics
  • Nihilism
  • Norms
  • Numbers
  • Oaths
  • Obadiah
  • Obligation
  • Obscenity
  • Old Testament Ethics
  • Omission, Sins of
  • Oppression
  • Orphans
  • Orthodox Ethics
  • Pacifism
  • Parables, Use of in Ethics
  • Parenthood, Parenting
  • Passions
  • Patience
  • Peace
  • Pedophilia
  • Penance
  • Penitence
  • Perfection
  • Persecution
  • 1 Peter
  • 2 Peter
  • Philemon
  • Philippians
  • Play
  • Pluralism
  • Poetic Discourse and Ethics
  • Political Ethics
  • Polygamy
  • Population Policy and Control
  • Pornography
  • Poverty and Poor
  • Powers and Principalities
  • Practices
  • Praxis
  • Preferential Option for the Poor
  • Prejudice
  • Pride
  • Priestly Literature
  • Prison and Prison Reform
  • Prisoners of War
  • Privacy
  • Procreation
  • Professional Ethics
  • Profit
  • Promise and Promise-Keeping
  • Propaganda
  • Property and Possessions
  • Proselytism
  • Prostitution
  • Proverbs
  • Prudence
  • Psalms
  • Public Theology and Ethics
  • Punishment
  • Quality of Life
  • Race
  • Racism
  • Rape
  • Reconciliation
  • Reformed Ethics
  • Religious Toleration
  • Reparation
  • Repentance
  • Reproductive Technologies
  • Resistance Movements
  • Resource Allocation
  • Responsibility
  • Restitution
  • Resurrection
  • Revelation, Book of
  • Revenge
  • Reward and Retribution
  • Right and Wrong
  • Righteousness
  • Rights
  • Roman Catholic Moral Theology
  • Romans
  • Ruth
  • Sabbath
  • Salvation
  • 1–2 Samuel
  • Sanctification
  • Sanctity of Human Life
  • Sanctuary
  • Science and Ethics
  • Security
  • Self
  • Self-Denial
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Harm
  • Selfishness
  • Self-Love
  • Sermon on the Mount
  • Seven Deadly Sins
  • Sex and Sexuality
  • Sex Discrimination
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Sexual Ethics
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Shame
  • Sin
  • Singleness
  • Sirach
  • Slander
  • Slavery
  • Sloth
  • Social Contract
  • Social Service, Social Ministry
  • Sociology of Religion
  • Sodomy
  • Solidarity
  • Song of Songs
  • Speech Ethics
  • Spousal Abuse
  • Stewardship
  • Submission and Subordination
  • Subsidiarity, Principle of
  • Suffering
  • Suicide
  • Supersessionism
  • Taxation
  • Technology
  • Teleological Theories of Ethics
  • Temperance
  • Temptation
  • Ten Commandments
  • Terrorism
  • Theft
  • Theocracy
  • Theodicy
  • 1–2 Thessalonians
  • Time, Use of
  • 1–2 Timothy
  • Tithe, Tithing
  • Titus
  • Tobit
  • Tolerance
  • Torah
  • Torture
  • Trade
  • Trinity
  • Truthfulness, Truth-Telling
  • Tyranny
  • Urbanization
  • Utilitarianism
  • Value, Value Judgments
  • Vegetarianism
  • Vice
  • Vices and Virtues, Lists of
  • Violence
  • Virginity
  • Virtue(s)
  • Virtue Ethics
  • Vocation
  • Vows
  • War
  • Wealth
  • Welfare State
  • Wesleyan Ethics
  • Widows
  • Wisdom Literature
  • Wisdom of Solomon
  • Women, Status of
  • Work
  • World
  • Worldliness
  • World Poverty, World Hunger
  • Zechariah
  • Zephaniah
  • List of Entries