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The Bible in Political Debate

What Does it Really Say?

  • Hardback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • 13.8 x 21.9 x 2.3 cm

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People regularly use the Bible in social and political debates on a host of controversial social and political issues, including: abortion, euthanasia, 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 can the Bible really be used in this way, and is it often used out of context in these major debates? This book examines the use of the bible in popular debates and controversies, looking at what the Bible really says (or doesn't say) in its original historical contexts, and at what it has been argued to have said through history on these topics. 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? And who (if anyone) really 'owns' the text?
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  • Authors

    Frances Flannery +1

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

  • Published

    September 2016

  • Weight

    386g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    13.8 x 21.9 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780567666611

  • ISBN-10

    0567666611

  • Eden Code

    4450416

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