The Decalogue Through the Centuries

This collection of essays by prominent scholars surveys the ways in which the Decalogue-the Ten Commandments-has been understood and appropriated from biblical times until today. With chapters devoted to major Christian thinkers-such as Aquinas, Barth, Calvin, Luther, Maimonides, and Wesley-the writers explore ways the Decalogue has provided theological, ethical, moral, and devotional reflection throughout many facets of religious thought. The pieces reveal both the continuities in interpretation through the centuries as well as ways in which individual theologians departed from reigning readings to develop new directions.

Jeffrey P. Greenman is Associate Dean of Biblical and Theological Studies and Professor of Christian Ethics at Wheaton College. Among his books is The Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries: From the Early Church to John Paul II, coedited with Timothy Larsen and Stephen R. Spencer. Timothy Larsen is Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England, which was the 2006 Book of the Year be Books Culture.