The new covenant and the challenge of building a new and transformed community in DR Congo : a contextual reading of Jeremiah 31:31-34
This article analyses YHWH's promise to make a new covenant with Israel / Judah after the exile. Judgement has already taken place against the people of Israel because they broke the covenant with YHWH. Some of them already found themselves in exile and others were about to follow them. It was...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2005
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Old Testament essays
Year: 2005, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 109-123 |
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| Summary: | This article analyses YHWH's promise to make a new covenant with Israel / Judah after the exile. Judgement has already taken place against the people of Israel because they broke the covenant with YHWH. Some of them already found themselves in exile and others were about to follow them. It was at that time that YHWH announced to his people that he would forgive them and make a new covenant with them after they had broken the first one. However, what is new in this new covenant is that YHWH himself will empower his people to 'know him' properly. This right knowledge of YHWH in the new covenant after YHWH has forgiven his people would also affect the life of the renewed community. Consequently, a forgiven and renewed community will become a community characterized by a common and shared access to knowledge and it will also become a forgiving community. In the same way, the argument in this article is that Congolese Christians, despite the particular context of war and ethnic divisions in which they are living, should always remember that they are a forgiven community. As such, they should always strive to live like a community that knows YHWH, that is, a community characterized by justice, forgiveness and the desire to live together and grow together in love and peace instead of destroying one another. |
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| ISSN: | 2312-3621 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/EJC85670 |