{"id":8005,"date":"2019-05-17T20:46:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T00:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8005"},"modified":"2019-05-17T20:46:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T00:46:02","slug":"the-plight-of-the-dispossessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8005","title":{"rendered":"The Plight of the Dispossessed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Johnson-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Johnson-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Johnson-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Johnson-2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Divine identification with the plight of the dispossessed in the event of the exodus makes understandable the constant return throughout the Bible to themes of God&#8217;s special concern for poor, powerless, oppressed, and marginalized persons.  Gracious and merciful, God acts to make a new future possible.  Such compassionate concern also undergirds the great biblical ethic of hospitality: &#8220;You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt&#8221; (Ex 22:21); and more positively, &#8220;You shall love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt&#8221; (Deut 10:19).  The people liberated from slavery must act in like manner as the Holy One who delivered them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; Elizabeth A. Johnson, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/creation_and_the_cross.html\">Creation\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0Cross<\/a>,<\/em> p. 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, May 15, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Divine identification with the plight of the dispossessed in the event of the exodus makes understandable the constant return throughout the Bible to themes of God&#8217;s special concern for poor, powerless, oppressed, and marginalized persons. Gracious and merciful, God acts to make a new future possible. Such compassionate concern also undergirds the great biblical ethic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8007,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions\/8007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}