Is it accurate to claim that political liberation is so much the overriding concern of the Old and New Testaments that we can claim that it is the gospel of Christ? In the biblical material, Exodus gives to Leviticus the formation of a cult and a people whose holiness of life reflected something of the nature of God. Texts such as the Magnificat and passages in the Psalms and prophets emphasize the upsetting of social structures, but those same biblical texts call upon the newly freed to repent of their sins and commit to the transformed lives indicative of the change brought about by the
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