Loading…

Israel’s Praise: Doxology against Idolatry and Ideology is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Praise is the duty and delight, the ultimate vocation of the human community; indeed of all creation. Yet, all life is aimed toward God and finally exists for the sake of God. Praise articulates and embodies our capacity to yield, submit, and abandon ourselves in trust and gratitude to the One whose we are. Praise is not only a human requirement and a human need, it is also a human delight. We...

In the preceding chapters, we have examined the inescapability and possibility of world-making, particularly as it is evident in Israel’s life of praise (chap. 1). World-making is a constitutive human activity. In Israel, faithful world-making is designed to form and sustain a world of celebrative liberation, hopeful homecoming, and glad obedience (chap. 2). Israel’s world-making was not always faithful, however. At times Israel distorted the world
Pages 123–124
Buy this book at Logos.com