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God in public : how the Bible speaks truth to power today / Tom Wright.
- Title
- God in public : how the Bible speaks truth to power today / Tom Wright.
- Author
- Wright, N. T. (Nicholas Thomas)
- Publication
- London : SPCK, 2016.
- ©2016
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BT738.25 .W75 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 190 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- What has Christianity to do with power? Why must the church remind those in authority of their responsibilities? What can Christians do to act as the voice of the voiceless? How can speaking of God in public help to create new structures of international justice and peace? These are the central questions running through Tom Wright's latest book, in which he demonstrates the many ways in which faithful exegesis of scripture can throw fresh light -- God's light -- on the great philosophical and ethical problems of our day --
- Subject
- Christian sociology
- Christian sociology
- Christianity and justice
- Christianity and politics
- Christianity and politics > Great Britain
- Christianity and politics
- Great Britain
- Power (Christian Theology) > Biblical Teaching
- Power (Christian theology) > Biblical teaching
- Power (Christian theology) > Biblical teaching
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 181) and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0281074232
- 9780281074235
- 9780281074242 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2015463896
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library