Bruce C. Birch is dean and professor of biblical theology at Wesley Theological Seminary.Jacqueline E. Lapsley is associate professor of Old Testament and director of the Center for Theology, Women, and Gender at Princeton Theological Seminary.Cynthia Moe-Lobeda is professor of theological and social ethics at Pacific Lutheran School of Theology, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, and the Graduate Theological Union.Larry L. Rasmussen is Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary.
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Introduction: A New Conversation Part I. The Bible as Moral Witness 1. A Two-Part Consensus 2. Foundations of the Biblical Text in Community Witness 3. Biblical Authority 4. Interpreting the Biblical Witness Part II. Elements of the Moral Life 5. What Are Morality, Ethics, and Christian Ethics? 6. Moral Formation 7. Moral Discernment and Action Part III. The Bible, Ethics, and the Moral Life 8. Witness and Practice 9. The Church and the Moral Life Summary and Challenge