Two popular authors consider not only what the Ten Commandments say about the people who observe them, but what they say about God. They are not some set of universal rules-they simply offer ways for a certain people to know a certain God-our God. What truths about God can be known through the Ten Commandments? God cares how we treat other people. God cares how we behave in marriage. God cares about the importance of being truthful. God wants people to take a day off from work each week. Readers will encounter Willimon and Hauerwas at their best as they explore the overarching question-What does it mean for people and the way they behave when they know some of these truths about God?
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Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics in the Divinity School at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. He has written a voluminous number of articles from 1969 to the present, authored and edited several books, and has been the subject of other theologians' writing and interest for many years. He is a board member of the Society of Christian Ethics, Associate Editor of a number of Christian journals and periodicals, and frequent lecturer at campuses across the country.
Feeling most at homebehind a pulpit, Bishop William H. Willimon’s deepest calling is to be a preacherand truth-teller of Jesus Christ.
A recent study by the Pulpit and Pew Research Center found that Willimonis one of the most widely read authors among mainline Protestant pastors and an international survey conducted byBaylor University named him one of the Twelve Most Effective Preachers in theEnglish-speaking world. With over a million copies of more than sixty books sold,his popularity is undeniable.
Willimon presides as Bishop of the North Alabama Conference of The UnitedMethodist Church, after serving for twenty years as faculty member and Dean ofthe Chapel at Duke University. He continues to give lectures and teach atuniversities around the world. Willimon earned a doctoral degree from EmoryUniversity and has been honored with thirteen additional doctorates.
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The Counter Cultural 10 Commandments,
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This review is from: The Truth About God: The Ten Commandments in Christian Life (Paperback)
The Ten Commandments that a judge from Alabama fought to hang on the wall were not the commandments of God that Christians serve. Those same commandments are not a general call for morality that can save the pluralistic society of the United States of America. According to the authors, these commandments must be understood within the context of the Christian community. This work declares the Ten Commandments to be the way that the worshiping church relates to God and each other. Hauerwas and Willimon seek to explain the commandments from that context so that they may be known "perfectly."Only the worshiping church is able to understand the Ten Commandments. They are not, as explained by the authors, "timeless ethical principles that are applicable to all Americans." This work reclaims another part of the church's heritage necessary for life as resident aliens. Clearly, Hauerwas and Willimon are working within and driving the trend toward understanding the church as a community. Their attack on American individualism serves to push the church to understanding itself as a holy people. These holy people are the possession of the "God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the God of Jesus Christ." The Truth about God is a striking look at the Ten Commandments. This work exposes the ways that our society is so sinful that the institution of the Church is the only hope for Christians to survive and obey God. Only within this context are the people of God able to truly obey his words to us. Despite the informal tone of some sections of the book, it strikes deeply in exposing our sinfulness and the churches need for grace. Hauerwas and Willimon teach at Duke University in Durham North Carolina. Hauerwas serves as the professor of Theological Ethics, and Willimon serves as the Dean of the Chapel and professor of Christian Ministry.
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Outstanding and concise reflection on the Ten Words,
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As always, Hauerwas and Willimon are provocative and insightful, challenging the church to take the Ten Words as seriously as we think we do.
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Buy J I Packer's "Keeping the Ten Commandments" instead,
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I bought this book and think it's really bad. The authors make sweeping statements that are most certainly not accurate or fully correct. "The rich are insatiable and can never be content." I know many people who are very wealthy because God has blessed them with talent and the resultant wealth is freely given away.
I would recommend J. I. Packer's "Keeping the 10 Commandments" and John H Timmerman's "Do We Still Need the Ten Commandments" as well as J. Ellsworth Kalas' "The Ten Commandments from the Back Side" as much better books on the Ten Commandments. I threw my copy of Hauerwas and Willimon's "The Truth About God" in the garbage it was so bad.
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