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Re: Social justice and the biblical narrative

Re: Social justice and the biblical narrative

I am not much of an Old Testament theologian but I am familiar with Pentateuchal source theories, and can see that that may account for thematic discontinuities between the two creation narratives. However, I also made the point that other aspects of Genesis 1 play a crucial part in defining the identity and purpose of Israel, including the activity of a creator God, and that not everything can be reduced to the theme of social justice. Moreover, at some point Israel apparently opted for an integrated creation narrative, presumably believing that it gave a more adequate account of the state of the world. Neither here nor anywhere else in the New Testament, as far as I am aware (I could be wrong), is it maintained that human society generally would be more just if people observed the sabbath.

He was all powerful but there was not a push to renounce other gods as not being “real”.

Doesn’t Isaiah 45, which is addressed in the first part to Cyrus, suggest otherwise: ‘I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I gird you, though you do not know me…’?

Getting frustrated by An Emergent Manifesto of Hope By: Andrew (26 replies) 11 May, 2007 - 14:44