Description:
God of Justice and Mercy offers an excellent tool for anyone who wants to engage with the theology of Judges in its Old Testament context as well as how its message is revealed in the New Testament and continues to speak today
Brief description: Isabelle Hamley is Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge
Review Quotes: "In this wise, clear-eyed exposition Isabelle Hamley shows why we return again and again to old Scripture. Her fresh reading of the Book of Judges provides clues for how we may "read our own time" with the eyes of faith. On the one hand the narrative of Israel is filled with wayward violence and brokenness, a condition that requires God's insistent justice. On the other hand, amid such human fecklessness is God's own "dogged determination" to create and sustain Israel, an act of God's good grace. The narrative insists that both God's uncompromising justice and God's inexplicable grace are defining for life in the raggedness of the world. These themes, lined out in carefully crafted narrative detail, give us a lens through which to read our own daily newspaper or watch cable news with the alertness of adult faith. Hamley's commentary is a welcome gift for serious informed faith."--Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary, USA