The truth about God : the Ten commandments in Christian life / Stanley M. Hauerwas, William H. Willimon. [print]
Material type: TextPublication details: Nashville : Abingdon Press, (c)1999.Description: 144 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780687082025
- BV4655.H368.T788 1999
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Preface -- Introduction: A people owned by the true God -- 1. The first commandment -- 2. The second commandment -- 3. The third commandment -- 4. The fourth commandment -- 5. The fifth commandment -- 6. The sixth commandment -- 7. The seventh commandment -- 8. The eighth commandment -- 9. The ninth and tenth commandments -- Bibliography -- Index -- Biblical index
Analyzes each of the Ten Commandments and discusses what they tell us about God. Describes how God loves mankind enough to take an interest in the real issues of daily life, such as property, sex, and speech.
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Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law at the Divinity School at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He has written a voluminous number of articles, authored and edited many books, and has been the subject of other theologians' writing and interest. He has been a board member of the Society of Christian Ethics, Associate Editor of a number of Christian journals and periodicals, and a frequent lecturer at campuses across the country.
Will Willimon is a preacher and teacher of preachers. He is a United Methodist bishop (retired) and serves as Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry and Director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina. For twenty years, he was Dean of the Chapel at Duke University. A 1996 Baylor University study named him among the Twelve Most Effective Preachers in the English-speaking world. The Pew Research Center found that Will was one of the most widely read authors among Protestant clergy in 2005. His quarterly Pulpit Resource is used by thousands of pastors throughout North America, Canada, and Australia. In 2021 he gave the prestigious Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching at Yale Divinity School. Those lectures became the book Preachers Dare: Speaking for God, which is the inspiration for his ninetieth book, Listeners Dare: Hearing God in the Sermon.
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