Revealing God’s tenacious love for us
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Revealing God’s tenacious love for us
Hesed is a core word in the Hebrew Bible, translated as “steadfast love” in the NRSV and as “tenacious solidarity” by Walter Brueggemann. Hesed is God’s stance toward humans, revealed in the covenant with the people Israel and embodied for us all in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This divine love is for all creation. Indeed, the Bible’s trajectory aims toward the transformation of all things, both the heavens and the earth.
