Thursday, July 12, 2012
Needham P (1986) A Contemporary Theology of Social Service. Officer
God created heavens and the earth - dualism was denied. God weas creator of all, nothing was to be held back from his Lordship.
Incl in his Lordship were human social relationships. It is no accident that 6 of teh 10 commandments have to do with social relationships and that eht OT is replete with social imperatives about righting injustices, advocating teh causde of the poor, the outcasts and teh disadvantaged, and offering concrete support to the sojourner, the widow, the fatherless, the brother in need.
The prophets intensified awareness of this covenant of social responsibility, often contrasting it with self-centred religious piety
Sin brought alienationnot only from GOd but also from other persons, and th efuture to which God was calling his people included the healing of social wounds and the exaltation of social rejects 414
The Christians point of departure in the matter of social responsibility, therefore, is that in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, there is the restoration of teh social covenant and teh power to live by it. If in his death Jesus 'has made us both one, and has broken down teh diving wall of hostility (eph 2.14) then we have an unavoidable calling to reach out to the alienated and prove the whole truth of what the gospel of reconciliation is able tyo do 414
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Incl in his Lordship were human social relationships. It is no accident that 6 of teh 10 commandments have to do with social relationships and that eht OT is replete with social imperatives about righting injustices, advocating teh causde of the poor, the outcasts and teh disadvantaged, and offering concrete support to the sojourner, the widow, the fatherless, the brother in need.
The prophets intensified awareness of this covenant of social responsibility, often contrasting it with self-centred religious piety
Sin brought alienationnot only from GOd but also from other persons, and th efuture to which God was calling his people included the healing of social wounds and the exaltation of social rejects 414
The Christians point of departure in the matter of social responsibility, therefore, is that in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, there is the restoration of teh social covenant and teh power to live by it. If in his death Jesus 'has made us both one, and has broken down teh diving wall of hostility (eph 2.14) then we have an unavoidable calling to reach out to the alienated and prove the whole truth of what the gospel of reconciliation is able tyo do 414
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