The God You Have: Politics and the First CommandmentFortress Press - 81 pages In this bracing call to serious thought, esteemed biblical theologian Patrick Miller looks to the First Commandment in the fight against the misappropriation of theological themes for political ends-''the coalescence of God and country, the takeover of the language of faith in the speech of politics, and the confusion of loyalty with obedience.'' |
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... SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME OR AHE IMAGES OF ANYTHING D YOU SHALL NOT WORSHIP THEM ECAUS THE LORD YOUR GOD AM A JEALOUS GOD The God You Have Bolitioc Religion and the Fiкct Comment The God You Have This One BAEP - 6Y3 -. Front Cover.
... SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME OR AHE IMAGES OF ANYTHING D YOU SHALL NOT WORSHIP THEM ECAUS THE LORD YOUR GOD AM A JEALOUS GOD The God You Have Bolitioc Religion and the Fiкct Comment The God You Have This One BAEP - 6Y3 -. Front Cover.
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Contents
The First Commandment as Political Axiom | 1 |
What Do You Do with the God You Have? | 5 |
The Prologue as Political Announcement | 12 |
Translating Politically | 19 |
The Economic God | 24 |
The Political Order as Other God | 32 |
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Page 35 - Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
Page 35 - Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land. Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there : but prophesy not again any more at Bethel : for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house.
Page 30 - As a stake is driven firmly into a fissure between stones, so sin is wedged in between selling and buying.
Page 35 - I -was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son ; but I was an herdman, and a dresser of sycamore trees : and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
Page 26 - I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
Page 61 - In him, according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will, we who first hoped in Christ have been destined and appointed to live for the praise of his glory.
Page 50 - Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God, the Lord is one: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.
Page 4 - Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God, whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.
Page 51 - ... those prophets or those who divine by dreams shall be put to death for having spoken treason against the LORD your God — who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery — to turn you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk.
Page 50 - Are you a wizard or are you utterly insensible to pain?" "I am neither," replied the martyr, "but all my life I have been waiting for the moment when I might truly fulfill this commandment. I have always loved the Lord with all my might, and with all my heart; now I know that I love him with all my life.