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Israel's God's bodied love continues world-making

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Israel's God's bodied love continues world-making.

The modifier "Israel" assures that "God" is the
creator of heaven and earth, who emancipated Israel and gave the commands of
Sinai. This God is fully and uniquely "bodied" in Jesus and his restorative
life. "Continues" concerns the ongoing force and rule of God's Spirit that is
the presence of Jesus. This covenantal love binds the world to God's goodness,
which creates and recreates worlds (cosmic, public, social, personal) toward
flourishing. This love invites creaturely engagement with such flourishing. I
used only six words; I rested on the seventh.

Walter Brueggemann

Walter Brueggemann is the author of A Gospel of Hope and Interrupting Silence.

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