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Karl Barth was well-known for his criticism of German nationalism as a corrupting influence on the German protestant churches in the Nazi era. Carys Moseley traces how Barth reconceived nationhood in the light of a lifelong interest in the exegesis and preaching of the Pentecost…
Drawing from both the Old and New Testaments, this book explores how God chooses, how humans participate, what we know from the Bible about God's intentions, and whether God's plan for the chosen people succeeds.
Drawing from both the Old and New Testaments, this book explores how God chooses, how humans participate, what we know from the Bible about God's intentions, and whether God's plan for the chosen people succeeds.
Drawing from both the Old and New Testaments, this book explores how God chooses, how humans participate, what we know from the Bible about God's intentions, and whether God's plan for the chosen people succeeds.
The topic of the election of Israel is one of the most controversial and difficult subjects in the entire Bible. Modern readers wonder why God would favor one specific people and why Israel in particular was chosen. One of the most important and theologically incisive voices on …
Biographical note: Marko Marttila, University of Helsinki, Finland.
The biblical concept of Israel as the Chosen People raises the difficult question about the fate of other nations. Earlier wisdom literature did not argue in national terms but in Ben Sira we have the first known sage who combined wisdom instructions and the history of his peopl…
By interpreting the theme of election in the book of Sirach, this monograph offers an alternative to the dualistic interpretation of Ben Sira and suggests a reading of this pivotal figure that accounts both for his particularism and his universalism.