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OUR STORY: DOING JUSTICE IN OUR WORLD
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ABSTRACT
We have looked at biblical narratives of God’s justice and at the way in which biblical writers see them as being imitated or ignored in human action in the Bible’s world. We have also looked at the extent to which they are embodied in our world today. Together these facts constitute the Bible’s challenge to do justice. It is a challenge to the Church as embodied both in individual Christians and in the churches. I would argue, moreover, that it is not only a challenge for Christians or the Church. Obviously the narratives and laws of justice in the Hebrew Bible demand action from Jews. But a reader of the Bible does not have to be a believer of any sort to perceive challenges in its text; all that is necessary is, to use my words in Chapter 1 (p. 14), “the response of the imagination to the moral feeling evoked by the text, which is called forth in the same way by our own context”.