speedily, my salvation is gone forth, and my arms will rule the peoples; the coastlands wait for me, and for my arm they hope” (Isa 51:4–5 RSV). In summary: God is a God of social justice. Where he reigns, there is no room for injustice and oppression. Whoever he calls and blesses to carry out his mission will be involved in social justice, in other words, in political action towards a better world. The Old Testament presents to us the story of a nation among nations
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