
Pastoral Practice and Whole-Life Discipleship
The Table Podcast
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What Is the Hebrew Idea of Flourishing?
The first word that captures human flourishing and design is shabat, god resting. Shabat or rest is fundamentally not just passivity but thei gagement of delight in relationship. To flourish is to be rightly related to god, to creation and to others. Brian fickert and others describe poverty as fundamentally a relational poverty, not just a material poverty. The trinity is all over the text. We don't exactly have a correspondence of an explicit trinity word. So just say flourishing, as i understand it, comprehensive human flourishing that clearly finds its source in god,. Its redemption in god, its ultimate fulfilment in god.
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