Reflections on the readings of Sundays and feasts June-August 2023
These days, the question often heard in the Scriptures, 'Where/Who is your God?', calls forth very different and conflicting, responses in our Australian society. Depending on experience, background, culture, 'God' can mean anything from a nonsense word, a helpful figure of speec...
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| Language: | English |
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2023
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The Australasian Catholic record
Year: 2023, Volume: 100, Issue: 2, Pages: 232-251 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity RC Liturgy |
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B God; Religious aspects B Community development; Religious aspects; Christianity B Culture; Religious aspects |
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| Summary: | These days, the question often heard in the Scriptures, 'Where/Who is your God?', calls forth very different and conflicting, responses in our Australian society. Depending on experience, background, culture, 'God' can mean anything from a nonsense word, a helpful figure of speech, a nebulous reality, to some way of expressing the inexpressible, and so on. The first reading presents us with an encounter on the mountain between the man Moses and the God of the Old Testament Scriptures, 'the LORD' (in Hebrew, YHWH), who 'descends' to 'stand with' Moses. In an earlier narrative in Genesis, Abraham is 'standing' before the LORD at Sodom (Gen 18:22; 19:27). Now, this God is revealed, and being self-described, in two pairs of qualities, which express Israel's understanding of God, and which appear very frequently throughout the Scriptures. They are strikingly attractive and even naively anthropomorphic, appealing to our best experiences of human relationships, rather than 'objectively' to our intellect. The expression 'slow to anger' concludes the first pair of tenderly-compassionate (raqum) and gracious (ḥanum), which are rooted in and reflect, above all, Israel's experience of God throughout its history. |
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| ISSN: | 0727-3215 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Australasian Catholic record
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3316/informit.099134686311066 |