{"id":8162,"date":"2019-09-10T16:35:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8162"},"modified":"2019-09-10T16:35:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T20:35:10","slug":"gods-redeeming-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8162","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Redeeming Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"798\" height=\"515\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Johnson-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Johnson-5.jpg 798w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Johnson-5-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Johnson-5-768x496.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The act of redeeming is motivated by divine mercy or compassion (<em>rahamim<\/em>).  If we knew Hebrew, we would realize that compassion is a cognate of the word for womb (<em>rehem<\/em>).  When the people of Israel heard, &#8220;With everlasting love I will have compassion on you, says YHWH your Redeemer&#8221; (Isa 54:8), they understood that the redeeming God was pouring out on them the kind of love a mother has for the child of her womb.  In Phyllis Trible&#8217;s careful analysis, this journey of a metaphor from the wombs of women to the compassion of God is a powerful clue to the divine being, unfolding as it does unsuspected female dimensions of the image of God whose mercy is greater than we can imagine&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From its original financial meaning the verb &#8220;redeem&#8221; expanded and came to refer to rescue from physical, political, and spiritual bondage; from slavery, exile, and other kinds of oppression; from persecution, troubles, and enemies; from sin and from death.  Individuals as well as the community as a whole were the beneficiaries of God&#8217;s redeeming care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This rich tradition flows into Second Isaiah who used it to awaken hope of redemption in people being held captive, based on the endearing <em>goel<\/em> relationship between YHWH and Israel: &#8220;But now thus says YHWH who created you, O Jacob, who formed you, O Israel:  Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine&#8221; (43:1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; Elizabeth A. Johnson, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/creation_and_the_cross.html\">Creation and the Cross<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/creation_and_the_cross.html\">,<\/a> p. 45-46<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo:  Rhine River, Germany, March 12, 1997<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The act of redeeming is motivated by divine mercy or compassion (rahamim). If we knew Hebrew, we would realize that compassion is a cognate of the word for womb (rehem). When the people of Israel heard, &#8220;With everlasting love I will have compassion on you, says YHWH your Redeemer&#8221; (Isa 54:8), they understood that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-love","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8162","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=8162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8164,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8162\/revisions\/8164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}