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• Text: ...We have an intellectual systematic account of reality on the basis of the foundational experience. Moses leads a slave band out of Egypt to freedom - the Exodus becomes the foundational event of Israel. The Jewish teacher and prophet, Jesus of Nazareth, is crucified by Imperial Rome and his...

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• Text: ...Paul was amazed and transformed. Now there would be no longer, as he wrote to the Galatians, Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female, but all one in Christ Jesus. And, he adds, if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise. No more barriers ...

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• Text: ...yles of both the rich and famous and the far larger, yet mostly hidden, world of the Roman havenots, peasants, plebians, and slaves. Richard Horsley, The Message and the Kingdom, p. 2F. As this citation begins, one might think one is reading a description of life at the end of the 20th Cent...

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• Text: ... the time of the Civil War when there was an argument that the states should be allowed to determine whether or not they had slaves, and he wants to suggest that that kind of determination by the states would have been just too much inclusion, that rather Lincoln said there are some things ...

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• Text: ...Paul was free of every human structure, ritual, law, custom and institution – he was a slave to Jesus Christ and that enslaving was perfect freedom. The freedom of grace relativized every other duty or claim upon him. Paul never wavered from the Gospel as it had been revealed to him and i...

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• Text: ...who gathered little had no shortage; they gathered as much as each of them needed." Last week we saw Israel set free, a slave people delivered by the mighty hand of God, by the mighty hand of Moses and we noted that that founding story was the story that Israel looked back to when it u...

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• Text: ...But, he hated them because he saw the way they were treating Russian prisoners who were slave laborers. Then one day as a seventeen-year-old he saw the German wounded coming down the road in retreat. He saw a man stumbling, led by two others, his head all bandaged, his jaw blown off, and in...

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• Text: ...Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace - the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living - the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build ...

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• Text: ... you go to the Deuteronomy account, the Sabbath commandment is based on the need to contemplate salvation or grace. You were slaves and God set you free. And so, it is a cessation of work but not as an end in itself, but as an opportunity to delight in the wonder of life and the miracle of ...

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• Text: ...ore the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s I could weep. It is treating people in a dehumanizing way. It is creating in them a slave mentality where they cower and where they don’t rock the boat, where they take abuse. They were treating them with paternalism and condescension. Malcolm X ex...

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• Text: ...The people need authority. They live by miracle, mystery, and authority. Let them submit. Let them be slaves, simply obedient, unthinking. Give them bread. That’s what the © Grand Valley State University Do I Need Religion? Richard A. Rhem Page 4   masses need, not the freedom o...