Wednesday, 2 November 2016
We the People: Israel and the Catholicity of Jesus , Tommy Givens, Fortress, 2014, page 280 So if Irael has nothing to bring, nothig to say and no ability to do or control anything, where does Israel stand? Here in G-d's electing activity in the depths of Israel's suffering we see with particular clarity what it means to be "we the people" of G-d. It means that the existence, and therefore the identity, of the people is given by G-d, such that the people is empowered to meet the deepest challenges to its life both with powerful measures of resistance and without violence. So identity is G-d-given after all, and not negotiated. It is not a matter of what you can get other people to let you be, but who G-d has called, given and equipped you to be!
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