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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-286) and indexes
Reinhold Niebuhr: Scripture as symbol -- H. Richard Niebuhr: Confessing with Scripture -- Bernard Häring: The freedom of responsive love -- Paul Ramsey: Obedient covenant love -- Stanley Hauerwas: The community story of Israel and Jesus -- Gustavo Gutiérrez: Liberating Scriptures of the poor -- James Cone: Scripture in African American liberation -- Rosemary Radford Ruether: Scripture in feminist perspective
Siker brings together the history of biblical interpretation and the study of uses of the Bible in Christian ethics, to examine how the Bible has actually been used in Christian theological ethics - and in the process profiling eight influential twentieth-century theologians
