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    <title>Bible &amp; ethics in the Christian life</title>
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    <title>Bible and ethics in the Christian life</title>
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    <namePart>Birch, Bruce C.</namePart>
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    <namePart>Rasmussen, Larry L.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Augsburg</publisher>
    <dateIssued>�1989</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1989</dateIssued>
    <edition>Rev. and expanded ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>239 pages ; 22 cm</extent>
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  <abstract>"In this book a biblical scholar and a Christian ethicist bring together their particular competencies to explore the functional relatedness of their disciplines in a way that is accessible to pastors and laity in churches. The comprehensiveness of the authors' scope, the quality of their methodological proposal, and the clarity of their presentation mark this a significant and useful book." -- Cover page 4.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>1. Consensus and questions -- 2. Christian ethics as community ethics -- 3. Charting the moral life -- 4. The elements of character formation -- 5. Character formation and social structure -- 6. Decision making -- 7. The church and the moral life -- 8. The nature and role of biblical authority -- 9. Making biblical resources available -- 10. Summary and challenge.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Bruce C. Birch &amp; Larry L. Rasmussen.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-237).</note>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BS680.E84 B57 1989</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="19">241</classification>
  <classification authority="nlm">BS 680 B57 1989</classification>
  <classification authority="rvk">BK 1455</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0806623977</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780806623979</identifier>
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