Scripture and Ethics: Twentieth-Century Portraits

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

JEFFREY S. SIKER, Scripture and Ethics: Twentieth-Century Portraits (New York Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). Pp. ix + 294. $45.

Siker, professor of NT at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), provides descriptive analyses of the ways in which Scripture has been used and interpreted in the theology and ethics of eight prominent and influential Christian theologians of the twentieth century. S. is perhaps best known for his book Disinheriting the Jews: Abraham in Early Christian Controversy (Louisville: Westminster/John ...

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