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- Title
YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW: TENSION REGARDING A CHANGED HEART IN DEUTERONOMY.
- Authors
ULRICH, DEAN R.
- Abstract
The book of Deuteronomy seems to contain contradictory messages. On the one hand, Moses tells the children of the exodus generation how to avoid the mistakes of their parents and thereby become a blessing to the nations. He often gives the impression that the children have an open future. On the other hand, Moses is convinced that the children will break Yahweh’s covenant and forfeit their privilege to remain in the Promised Land. He not only tells the children to circumcise their hearts in the narrative world of Deuteronomy 1:1 as if they can do this today, but he also announces that Yahweh will have to circumcise their hearts in the future after the exile. The children, of course, will no longer be alive. By means of a redemptive- historical perspective, this article tries to resolve the tension between these apparently contradictory messages. Could the children experience circumcised hearts today? Yes, by means of proleptic grace.
- Subjects
EXODUS, The; NAME of God; NAME of God in Christianity; PROPHETS; EXILES
- Publication
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2021, Vol 64, Issue 3, p453
- ISSN
0360-8808
- Publication type
Article