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May 11, 2018

American Civil Religion and the Dangers of Removing Scripture’s Moral Teachings from Their Context

Judeo-Christian ethics, the Ten Commandments, and The Ten Commandments.

James R. Rogers investigates the different meanings of biblical law for Jews and Christians, and the mistake both make when they try to isolate the Torah’s moral teachings from their context. The result of this “reductionist inclination” can be found in American discourse about “Judeo-Christian morality,” a phrase that Rogers takes to refer primarily to the Ten Commandments:

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