…Blessed are those, in other words, who believe despite the absence of empirical evidence. The politics of belief relates to the task of distinguishing those beliefs which we rightfully hold…
…sovereignties was as passionate as his love for the subalterns of his day. Jesus, therefore, was not calling for separating religion from politics because his alternative was a kingdom (politics)…
…something important about the collusion of economics and political tactics in maintaining the enslavement of the poor. Powerful people know how to use a politics of fear to threaten those…
…shepherd. In the context of the politics of Jesus the gate, in this figure of speech I recognise the shepherd, the gate, the gate keeper and the ‘lamb of God’…
…God. God’s call is not to engage in politics of personal power or self-service, but engage in a politics of liberation, one that ends the idolatrous hold on power so…
…you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.” 45Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 46and he said…
…Hallo and Younger, The Context of Scripture, 1:472, II line 19. “Assurbanipal’s Coronation Hymn (1.142),” translated by Alasdair Livingstone, in Hallo and Younger, The Context of Scripture, 1:473 line 1….
…should suffer these things and then enter into his glory?” Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things about himself in all the scriptures. As…
…Lord for drunkenness, displaying his lack of spiritual perception. Elsewhere in Scripture, drunkenness is a motif that appears in contexts of divine reversal and Eli’s misperception may be an intimation…
…for me this also illustrates an equally troubling temptation to caricature into irrelevance the bits of Scripture we’d rather overlook. Micah’s got some great one-liners … but what of the…
…Murphy The attention to questions of covenantalism and American politics epitomized in William F. May’s Testing the National Covenant: Fears and Appetites in American Politics, as well as in the…
…of God’s people told through the Hebrew scriptures, when humans seemed to possess power, it was actually God working through them. Their faith in God received approval and, through that…