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The Bible in Politics: How to Read the Bible Politically is unavailable, but you can change that!

The political interpretation of the Bible has many pitfalls for the unwary. It is all too easy to read our own prejudices into the text, and much harder to move intelligently, without anachronism, between the political societies of biblical times and the very different societies of today. This is why Richard Bauckham’s The Bible in Politics has been so enduring. It teaches the reader how to read...

theoretical response. It does not really want an explanation of God’s apparent absence, so much as an end to it. Concretely, it requires justice for the oppressed (v. 18) and retribution for the oppressors (v. 2b). The theodicy question inevitably arises in situations of political evil and oppression. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, the mayor of Leipzig whose Christian convictions drove him into the German resistance to Hitler, wrote from prison in 1945, after being sentenced to death: Is there a God who
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