Did God really command genocide? : coming to terms with the justice of God / Paul Copan and Matthew Flannagan.
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TextPublisher: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Books, [2014]Description: 351 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780801016226; 0801016223Subject(s): Ethnicity in the Bible | Genocide -- Biblical teaching | Genocide -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Violence in the Bible | Theodicy | God (Christianity) -- Righteousness -- Biblical teaching | God (Christianity) -- Love -- Biblical teaching| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Introduction: the new atheism and the Old Testament -- Part 1. Genocide texts and the problem of scriptural authority. 1. The problem clarified: an atheistic philosophical argument ; 2. What does it mean to say the Bible is the Word of God? ; 3. The God of the Old Testament versus the God of the New -- Part 2. Occasional commands, hyperbolic texts, and genocidal massacres. 4. Does the Bible command us to kill innocent human beings? ; 5. Does the Bible portray the Canaanites as innocent? ; 6. Thrusting out, driving out, and dispossessing the Canaanites--not annihilating them ; 7. The question of genocide and the hyperbolic interpretation of Joshua ; 8. Genocide and an argument for 'hagiographic hyperbole' ; 9. Objections from the biblical text to the hyperbolic interpretation ; 10. Legal and theological objections concerning genocide -- Part 3: Is it always wrong to kill innocent people? 11. Divine command theory: preliminary considerations ; 12. The divine command theory of obligation: what it is--and is not ; 13. Arbitrary divine commands? the Euthyphro dilemma ; 14. Other Euthyphro- related objections ; 15. Can one coherently claim that God commanded the killing of innocents? ; 16. Can one rationally believe God commands a violation of innocent human beings? ; 17. Is it rational to believe God commanded the killing of innocents? ; 18. What if someone claimed God commanded killing the innocent today? ; 19. The role of miracles and the command to kill Canaanites -- Part 4. Religion and violence. 20. Does religion cause violence? ; 21. Are Yahweh wars in the Old Testament just like Islamic jihad? ; 22. Did Old Testament war texts inspire the crusades? ; 23. Turning the other cheek, pacifism, and just war.