| Description |
1 online resource (134 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Foreword by Stanley Hauerwas -- Acknowledgments -- Guns in America, by the Numbers -- C. L. Crouch and Christopher B. Hays -- Gun Violence in America: A Theological Treatment for a Deadly Epidemic -- Christopher B. Hays -- 1. Projecting on Joshua: You Can't Worship Both God and Glock -- Brent A. Strawn -- 2. A Mother's Lament: Mourning as a Witness to Lives That Matter -- Yolanda Norton -- 3. "Do Not Be Afraid": The Walls of Jerusalem and the Guns of America -- Christopher B. Hays -- 4. Israelite Bows and American Guns |
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T. M. Lemos -- 5. This Sword Is Double-Edged: A Feminist Approach to the Bible and Gun Culture -- Shelly Matthews -- 6. Can a Christian Own a Gun? -- David Lincicum -- Afterword -- Ways to Get Involved -- C. L. Crouch and Christopher B. Hays -- About the Writers -- Scripture Index -- Subject Index -- Excerpt from The Possibility of America, by David Dark |
| Summary |
Using the Bible as the foundational source and guide, while also bringing contemporary sociological data to the conversation, seven biblical scholars and theologians construct a powerful dialogue about gun violence in America, concluding that guns are incompatible with the God of Christian Scripture |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Violence -- Biblical teaching
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Firearms -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Firearms ownership -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
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Gun control -- United States
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Firearms -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Gun control
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Violence -- Biblical teaching
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hays, Christopher B., 1973-
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Crouch, Carly L. (Carly Lorraine), 1982-
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| ISBN |
9781646982257 |
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1646982258 |
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