The Bible in Political Debate (eBook, ePUB)

What Does it Really Say?
Redaktion: Flannery, Frances; Werline, Rodney A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Politicians and pundits regularly invoke the Bible in social and political debates on a host of controversial social and political issues, including: abortion, stem-cell research, gay marriage, the death penalty, separation of church and state, family values, climate change, income distribution, teaching evolution in schools, taxation, school prayer, aid for the poor, and immigration. But is the Bible often used out of context in these major debates?

This book includes essays by fourteen biblical scholars who examine the use of the Bible in political debates, uncovering the original historical contexts and meanings of the biblical verses that are commonly cited. The contributors take a non-confessional approach, rooted in non-partisan scholarship, to show how specific texts have at times been distorted in order to support particular views. At the same time, they show how the Bible can sometimes make for unsettling reading in the modern day. The key questions remain: What does the Bible really say? Should the Bible be used to form public policy?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567666598
• Artikelnr.: 45527722

Autorenporträt

Frances Flannery is Director at the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Terrorism and Peace, and Professor of Religion at James Madison University, USA. Rodney A. Werline is Professor of Religious Studies, Leman and Marie Barnhill Endowed Chair in Religious Studies, and Director, Barton College Center for Religious Studies at Barton College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: The Bible and Political Debate: What Does it Really Say? - Frances Flannery
James Madison University
U.S.A. and Rodney Werline
Barton College
Wilson
North Carolina
U.S.A. Part I: The Bible in Contemporary Political Debate 1. The Bible and Family Values (Marriage is Between One Man and One Woman) - Andrew Klumpp and Jack Levison
Southern Methodist University 2. Diasporas "R" Us: Attitudes Toward Immigrants in the Bible - Hector Avalos 3. Ending a Life that Has Not Begun - Abortion in the Bible
Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte
VU University
Amsterdam
Netherlands 4. Senators
Snowballs
and Scripture: The Bible and Climate Change - Frances Flannery
James Madison University
U.S.A. 5. Work
Poverty and Welfare
Rodney A. Werline
Barton College
Wilson
North Carolina
U.S.A. 6. Culture Wars
the Bible
and Homosexuality - Jonathan L. Jackson 7. The Bible and Divine Sanctioning of Governments - Colleen Shantz
University of Toronto
Canada 8. Teaching Evolution vs Creationism - Daniel K. Falk
Pennsylvania State University
USA Part II: The Bible in Historical Political Debate 9. Tracing the Use of the Bible in Colonial Land Claims in North America - Judith H. Newman
University of Toronto
Canada 10. The Bible
Slavery
and Political Debate - Emerson B. Powery
Messiah College
Mechanicsburg
Pennsylvania
U.S.A. 11. Women
the Bible
and the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution - Christopher Rollston
George Washington University
U.S.A. Part III: Concluding Thoughts 12. What is the Bible? - Kelley N. Coblentz Bautch 13. Compromise as a Biblical Value - John Kutsko
Executive Director of the Society of Biblical Literature
U.S.A.