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Book Synopsis
The question of the good life - what it looks like for people and societies to be well ordered and flourishing - has universal significance, but its proposed solutions are just as far reaching. With Seeking What Is Right, Iain Provan invites us to consider how Scripture - the Old Testament in particular - can aid us in this quest.

Table of Contents
  • Part 1. Foundations
  • 1 The Good Life and How to Recognize It
  • A Short Introduction
  • 2 The Twenty-Five Percent Bible
  • Scripture and the Good Life
  • 3 In the Beginning
  • Design, Sin, and Redundancy
  • Part 2. Explorations
  • 4 The Emperor's New Clothes
  • Constantine as Biblical Hero
  • 5 Not Wholly Roman
  • The Carolingian Empire
  • 6 Journey to the Center of the Earth
  • The First Crusade and Jerusalem
  • 7 The Foulness of Fornication
  • Sex and Marriage in John Calvin's Geneva
  • 8 Apocalypse Now
  • The New Jerusalem in Münster
  • 9 Men of Blood
  • The English Revolution
  • 10 A City upon a Hill
  • The Godly Republic in New England
  • 11 God's Servant for Your Good
  • Tyranny, Freedom, and Right Government
  • 12 Conceived in Liberty?
  • Race, Slavery, and the People Of God
  • 13 A Monstrous Regiment?
  • The Vocation and Rights of Women
  • 14 Staying Alive
  • Jews, Palestinians, and the Holy Land
  • 15 On Looking After the Garden
  • The Good Life and Environmental Ethics
  • Part 3. Conclusions
  • 16 The Sword of the Spirit
  • The Cutting Edge of Biblical Ethics
  • 17 The Moral Maze of the Moment
  • A Brief Guide for the Perplexed
  • 18 Who Am I?
  • Questions of Identity
  • 19 The Landscape of Exile
  • On Living in Dangerous Times
  • 20 The Disciplines of Exile
  • On Hearts and Minds

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      Publisher: Baylor University Press
      Publication Date: 11/30/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781481312882, 978-1481312882
      ISBN10: 148131288X
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      Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The question of the good life - what it looks like for people and societies to be well ordered and flourishing - has universal significance, but its proposed solutions are just as far reaching. With Seeking What Is Right, Iain Provan invites us to consider how Scripture - the Old Testament in particular - can aid us in this quest.

      Table of Contents
      • Part 1. Foundations
      • 1 The Good Life and How to Recognize It
      • A Short Introduction
      • 2 The Twenty-Five Percent Bible
      • Scripture and the Good Life
      • 3 In the Beginning
      • Design, Sin, and Redundancy
      • Part 2. Explorations
      • 4 The Emperor's New Clothes
      • Constantine as Biblical Hero
      • 5 Not Wholly Roman
      • The Carolingian Empire
      • 6 Journey to the Center of the Earth
      • The First Crusade and Jerusalem
      • 7 The Foulness of Fornication
      • Sex and Marriage in John Calvin's Geneva
      • 8 Apocalypse Now
      • The New Jerusalem in Münster
      • 9 Men of Blood
      • The English Revolution
      • 10 A City upon a Hill
      • The Godly Republic in New England
      • 11 God's Servant for Your Good
      • Tyranny, Freedom, and Right Government
      • 12 Conceived in Liberty?
      • Race, Slavery, and the People Of God
      • 13 A Monstrous Regiment?
      • The Vocation and Rights of Women
      • 14 Staying Alive
      • Jews, Palestinians, and the Holy Land
      • 15 On Looking After the Garden
      • The Good Life and Environmental Ethics
      • Part 3. Conclusions
      • 16 The Sword of the Spirit
      • The Cutting Edge of Biblical Ethics
      • 17 The Moral Maze of the Moment
      • A Brief Guide for the Perplexed
      • 18 Who Am I?
      • Questions of Identity
      • 19 The Landscape of Exile
      • On Living in Dangerous Times
      • 20 The Disciplines of Exile
      • On Hearts and Minds

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