Dictionary of scripture and ethics

This one-stop reference book on the vital relationship between Scripture and ethics offers helpful orientation and perspective for students, pastors, and scholars. The volume shows how Christian Scripture and Christian ethics are necessarily intertwined and offers up-to-date treatment of five hundred biblical, traditional, and contemporary topics, including tithing, euthanasia, the Trinity, population policy and control, healthcare systems in Scripture, the seven deadly sins, idolatry, the image of God, terrorism, the Sermon on the Mount, vegetarianism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction / Joel B. Green -- Ethics in Scripture / Allen Verhey -- Scripture in Ethics: A History / Charles H. Cosgrove -- Scripture in Ethics: Methodological Issues / Bruce C. Birch -- Entries: -- Abortion -- Abuse -- Accountability -- Acts -- Additions to Daniel -- Additions to Esther -- Adoption -- Adultery -- Affections -- African American Ethics -- Agape -- Aged, Aging -- Alcohol -- Aliens, Immigration, and Refugees -- Almsgiving -- Altruism -- Amos -- Anabaptist Ethics -- Anger -- Anglican Ethics and Moral Theology -- Animals -- Antichrist -- Antinomianism -- Anti-Semitism -- Anxiety -- Apartheid -- Apostolic Fathers -- Ars Moriendi Tradition, Use of Scripture in -- Artificial Intelligence -- Asceticism -- Atonement -- Authority and Power -- Autonomy -- Ban, The -- Baptist Ethics -- Baruch -- Beatitudes -- Benevolence -- Bioethics -- Birth Control -- Blasphemy -- Blessing and Cursing -- Body -- Bribery -- Business Ethics -- Canon Law -- Capitalism -- Capital Punishment -- Cardinal Virtues -- Care, Caring -- Casuistry -- Celibacy -- Character -- Charity, Works of -- Child Abuse -- Childlessness -- Children -- 1 / 2 Chronicles -- Circumcisio…