Now Choose Life

Download or read book Now Choose Life written by J. G. Millar and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series addresses key issues in the discipline of biblical theology. Scholarly yet entirely accessible to students, pastors, and lay readers, these volumes avoid technical jargon, interact with the best, most relevant literature, and -- above all -- provide clear and creative insights that help thinking Christians better understand the Bible and its application to contemporary life. Deuteronomy contains both profound theology and profound ethics. It is a book that calls God's covenant people, from ancient Israelites to modern-day Christians, to hear God and to do his will. It is also a book central to the Old Testament, so that those who would understand Old Testament ethics -- and, in turn, biblical ethics as a whole -- must wrangle with its potent message. In this new study Gary Millar provides a careful and perceptive analysis of Deuteronomy's ethical teaching set in the context of the book's theology. After discussing how Deuteronomy has been understood by other scholars, Millar sets out his own interpretation, dealing with Deuteronomy's ethics in the light of its most significant themes: covenant, journey, law, and the nations.