So I found a really cool new blog: On Journeying with those in Exile. I highly recommend checking it out. Dan is a guy who's gone a lot further than anyone I know in following Jesus towards the margins of society. His writing is very thoughtful, and in a way similar to Wendell Berry but not as far in degree, grounded by his actual attempts at living the stuff out.
Anyway this one post in particular about Justice as Gratitude was really helpful to me in my thoughts on atonement/deification. Dan talks about this book Honor, Patronage, Kinship & Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture by Professor David A. Desilva. In this particular post Dan explores the possibility of an understanding of justice rooted in the 1st century culture that seems to do away with this justice/mercy dichotomy that we've come up with. I dig it. I dig it a lot.
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