Understanding Biblical Law

Understanding Biblical LawSouthwestern Journal of Theology 2025 Book Award (Honorable Mention, Biblical Reference Biblical Backgrounds) We tend to be perplexed by the psalmists who express delight in God's laws. We see biblical law as a long list of rules with harsh punishments, and the more we read the biblical law within modern legal frameworks, the stranger it appears. We are too estranged from its world, aims, and concerns to see its beauty and wisdom. In Understanding

showing how each book has a purposeful function within the larger context of Scripture

which combines three volumes into one

Wray Beal (Wycliffe College

The ministry of reconciliation is the new whole in holistic ministry

How can impure

This series approaches each text in its final

and ecological theologies

While giving attention to historical background

This deluxe boxed set includes special hardcover editions of the four Gospel volumes

At once biblical

ministers from different denominational backgrounds

Here leading pastor theologian Steven Mathewson instructs and inspires preachers to preach some of the most challenging--and some of the richest--material in the Old Testament