When we read the Bible, therefore, we must be aware of the false dichotomies, the foreign categories and the freighted presuppositions that people project upon it. True, the gospel cannot be reduced to a this-worldly project of social betterment. But neither is the gospel an escapist drama for the soul pining for the angelic decor of heaven. If we go that route of spiritual escapism, supposing that the gospel has nothing to do with power, politics, economics and injustice, we are embracing a perspective totally alien to the testimony of the prophets, the teaching of Jesus or the witness of the
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