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FROM GOD THE WARRIOR TO THE GOD OF UNIVERSAL LOVE Biblical Interpretation of War
Božo Lujić
; Franjevačka teologija, Sarajevo
Sažetak
The origin of this work can be found in the institution of the holy
war (JI 4,9; Mi 3,5) in Israel, which lay on the experiences of God
Jehovah who was the liberator and leader of the people. Although
this institution went through very big changes, there is still one
unchanged and important term of reference: Jehovah had the role
of the defender of the right of people'S existence. The intercession
for people and a man must not be taken as a religious war. The
religious war is, in fact, leading a war in the name of its God against
some other religion. God's experience of defending the justice and
rights, in fact, the experience of God who is on the side ofthe good,
had its shifts in different theology where Jehovah is not on the side
of the Israeli people but everywhere where those values are
jeopardized. In the New Testament, God announces and realizes
the God's kingdom through Jesus, the kingdom which would not
be based on the force and violence. On the contrary, the realization
of his kingdom can be achieved by non-violence, that is, by taking
on his own shoulders the burden of human destinies and liberation
of people from the vicious circle of evil by the suffering of love.
What was once the important experience of the holy war, in which
Israel tried God as an liberator, is now an experience of God who
is fighting for the rights of men by the suffering of love.
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Hrčak ID:
33036
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Datum izdavanja:
1.3.1994.
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