Most of the recent issues of Ethics in Conversation from the Kirby Laing Centre have been book reviews, and I haven’t bothered posting them here. But the latest is a piece by Craig Bartholomew on ‘Old Testament Wisdom and Politics’, which unpacks the following main points:
1. Faith and wisdom embrace and include in their remit politics and government
2. Faith and wisdom recognise that politics can go horribly wrong.
3. Wise politics prioritises the afflicted, the poor, the needy and those without a voice
4. OT Israel was never a democracy, but OT wisdom orients us in important ways
It’s available as a pdf here.
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