09 December 2010

God's politics is geo-political

The land represents the geo- in geo-politics. To the extent that territory and resources shape the political reality of peoples, those factors inhere in the land. Those factors of geography and topography and resources are the principal concerns of YHWH, and they are why He is so concerned about the land. God is, in the first place, political insofar as politics is geo-political. 

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