Deliverance from Slavery: Attempting a Biblical Theology in by Dick Boer

By Dick Boer

‘Delivery from slavery’: those phrases, taken from a Dutch labour move music, completely map onto the Bible’s relevant difficulty. also they are just like the Torah’s keyword: ‘I am YHWH, your God, who introduced you out of Egypt, out of the home of bondage' (Ex 20:2).

The phrases are invoked right here to function an axiom to be brought into the fashionable interval. The watchword ‘delivery from slavery’ interprets the biblical message of the exodus from slavery into the speculation and perform of a contemporary liberation circulation. the current paintings argues that biblical theology is the try to ‘update’ the ‘language of the message’. It searches for a language that attends to the troubles of today’s global whereas ‘preserving’ the worries that initially prompted biblical language.

Biographical note
Dick Boer, Dr. theol. [1939], theologian, retired professor on the collage of Amsterdam. He has released monographs on 'theology and ideology', the heritage of recent theology and Karl Barth.

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All attracted to biblical theology, philosophy and Marxism.

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Hopefully, somebody will then be present to point this out: You are not as alone as all that, seven thousand more are left who did not bow before Baal (1 Kgs 19:18). The God of the Bible The Bible not only obliges, it also points to a factor that means that we are not entirely alone. 10 He is not a common god, who drums the futility of resistance into the people, but a God who accommodates this resistance. He is a God who delivers from slavery a people who do not know where to turn in their yearning for liberation.

The messianic community shares this Scripture with the synagogue; it quarrels about this Scripture with the synagogue, specifically whether Jesus really did fulfil Torah and Prophets or whether, in the end, he dispelled them. This is a question which can only be resolved in practice, through the practice of this community, its messianic actuality. The voices from 19 20 21 22 23 Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi. The common terms are ‘former’ and ‘latter’ prophets.

It is well understood that the gospels did not introduce anything new with respect to what is “other”. Without exception, the Torah’s structures are the prerequisites of the Kerygma, the Christian message’ (Miskotte 1983, p. 385). introduction 13 and slaves; how it fails and betrays (‘sins against’) the project; its rare victories and many defeats; the voices of the prophets which are audible time and again and which call for repentance, and speak of the promise that God, too, will return to his people.

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