Love acts of its own initiative, under no compulsion or constraint, in order that another may benefit; and the activity which is characteristic of love is, in principle, without limit or qualification.
“Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord GOD, and not rather that they should turn from their ways and live?”
― Little Book of Biblical Justice: A Fresh Approach To The Bible's Teachings On Justice
― Little Book of Biblical Justice: A Fresh Approach To The Bible's Teachings On Justice
“Justice flows from God’s own being and designates the way God intends the world to be. But things have fallen into disorder; the shalom of creation has been ruptured. God responds by seeking to restore the world to the way it ought to be.”
― Little Book of Biblical Justice: A Fresh Approach To The Bible's Teachings On Justice
― Little Book of Biblical Justice: A Fresh Approach To The Bible's Teachings On Justice
“But the distinctive concern of biblical justice is not to punish sinners, but to restore shalom by clarifying and dealing with the damage caused by wrongdoing. Punishment was a tool for helping to achieve this.”
― Little Book of Biblical Justice: A Fresh Approach To The Bible's Teachings On Justice
― Little Book of Biblical Justice: A Fresh Approach To The Bible's Teachings On Justice
“New Jerusalem is found wherever human community resists the ways of empire and places God at the center of its shared life."27”
― The Nonviolent Atonement
― The Nonviolent Atonement
“Today, the United States has just 5 percent of the world’s population but 25 percent of its incarcerated persons.”
― The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
― The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
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