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The Violence of the Biblical God: Canonical Narrative and Christian Faith is unavailable, but you can change that!

How we can make sense of violence in the Bible? The teachings of the incarnate Jesus sometimes seem to be at odds with the edicts of the God of Israel. Joshua commands God’s people to wipe out everyone in the Promised Land, yet Jesus commands God’s people to love their enemies. How are we to interpret passages on violence when it is sanctioned at one point and condemned at another? The Violence...

of corrupted human systems? We have already noted that God’s move to the outside frees God to reveal the fullness of the divine character and to promote a vision for human flourishing that was not possible when God was enmeshed within the systems of human power. Does this clarified ideal then necessarily require followers to adopt it in its entirety? Or might it serve primarily to orient vision and practice in the midst of a complex world fraught with situations in which there is no good decision?
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