It seems that the Levitical law for treatment of the alien — as neighbor — must have prevented a violent seizure of the land (in parallel to the ancient seizing); you can’t plan to kill and then love.
Israel will have to begin to love their neighbor(s). American ‘power’ should always guide and assist them in that direction. Because we are (or hope to continue as) a secular democracy, believing that such is the right path in these days between the times, we will have to bear that dual responsibility — democracy and the responsibility of love as social justice and good — as well as we can. Keeping an eye on Christ in these matters (too) should give us a marker by which to proceed. God help us.
I am 76 in December, found and read Barth on my own starting about 1980. I appreciate your drawing out these conflicts in his development; some I knew of and others I knew only a little.
It seems that the Levitical law for treatment of the alien — as neighbor — must have prevented a violent seizure of the land (in parallel to the ancient seizing); you can’t plan to kill and then love.
Israel will have to begin to love their neighbor(s). American ‘power’ should always guide and assist them in that direction. Because we are (or hope to continue as) a secular democracy, believing that such is the right path in these days between the times, we will have to bear that dual responsibility — democracy and the responsibility of love as social justice and good — as well as we can. Keeping an eye on Christ in these matters (too) should give us a marker by which to proceed. God help us.
I am 76 in December, found and read Barth on my own starting about 1980. I appreciate your drawing out these conflicts in his development; some I knew of and others I knew only a little.
This is excellent and an obvious labor of love. Thank you for it!