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Title: Slavery, Sabbath, War, and Women: Case Issues in Biblical Interpretation (Conrad Grebel Lecture) by Willard M. Swartley ISBN: 0-8361-3330-7 Publisher: Herald Press (PA) Pub. Date: 01 March, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Nothing like it
Comment: The book is now dated, but it has aged gracefully. There is nothing else like it. The beauty of the book, which makes it enduringly useful, is its presentation of arguments actually made on both sides of the questions: whether holding slaves is biblical, whether Christian worship should be on Saturday or Sunday, whether Christians may or should not participate in war, and whether women may or should not be ordained to Christian ministry. For most readers, these questions will have been long since settled. By presenting arguments, in their own wards, on both sides, Swartley shows how delicate and tenuous have been those settlements, as they claim biblical warrant for themselves.
Anyone concerned with the interpretation of scripture in relation to contested issues, moral and theological, should read this book. It is excellent.
Rating: 1
Summary: Fails the Test, .... but Creative
Comment: This book is for you if you are willing to accept the position of "creative" biblical interpretation. The format is exposition of the author's thesis using case studies. The case studies are designed to convince the reader that traditional interpretation approach is incapable of "seeing" beyond the literal concepts into the "true" and liberating meaning. The author's selection of substantiating cases are seriously flawed as references are admitadly drawn only from bible commentors from the 1950's on. The book appears to be apologetic for justification of women as pastors and preachers.
Rating: 5
Summary: Valuable on Multiple Levels
Comment: One of the aspects of Mr. Swartley's book that I found most interesting was his treatment of hermenuetics. He outlines 22 principles which every evangelical student of Scripture should utilize in attempting to interpret scripture. He begins with "Quoting the Bible does not in itself guarantee correctness of position" and moves through increasingly pragmatic suggestions for interpretation designed to minimize the development of embarrassing proof-texts. A must read for anyone concerned that the words spoken in the pulpit today may have to be dined upon tomorrow!
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Title: Homosexuality: Biblical Interpretation and Moral Discernment by Willard M. Swartley ISBN: 0836192451 Publisher: Herald Press (PA) Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Soul Survivor : How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church by PHILIP YANCEY ISBN: 0385502753 Publisher: Galilee Trade Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith by Marcus J. Borg ISBN: 0060526769 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: How to Read the Bible as Literature by Leland Ryken ISBN: 0310390214 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 03 January, 1985 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism by John Piper, Wayne A. Grudem ISBN: 0891075860 Publisher: Crossway Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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