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Seeking What Is Right - The Old Testament and the Good Life (Hardcover)
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Seeking What Is Right - The Old Testament and the Good Life (Hardcover)
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The question of the good lifeawhat it looks like for people and
societies to be well ordered and flourishingahas universal
significance, but its proposed solutions are just as far reaching.
At the core of this concern is the nature of the good itself: what
is "right"? We must attend to this ethical dilemma before we can
begin to envision a life lived to the fullest. With Seeking What Is
Right , Iain Provan invites us to consider how Scriptureathe Old
Testament in particularacan aid us in this quest. In rooting the
definition of the good in God's special revelation, Provan moves
beyond the constraints of family, tribe, culture, state, or nature.
When we read ourselves into the story of Scripture, we learn a
formative ethic that speaks directly to our humanity. Provan delves
into Western Christian history to demonstrate the various ways this
has been done: how our forebears identified with the narrative of
God's people, Israel, and how they applied the Old Testament to
their particular times and concerns. This serves as a foundation
upon which modern Christians can assess their decisions as people
who read the whole biblical story "from the beginning" in our time.
Provan challenges us to grapple with ethical issues dominating our
contemporary culture as a people in exile, a people formed by
disciplines steeped in the patterns and teachings of Scripture. To
come alongside ancient Israel in its own experiences of exile, to
listen with Israel to the utterances of a holy God, is to approach
a true picture of the good life that illuminates all facets of
human existence. Provan helps us understand how we should and
should not read Scripture in arriving at these conclusions,
clarifying for the faithful Christian what the limits of the search
for "what is right" look like.
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