Description
Recent events in Gaza have once again highlighted the near intractable problems that seem to plague the modern Near East. For Christians there is the added dimension of the status of God's promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and in particular in the light of the same God's new covenant inaugurated in Christ. How are we to respond when, for example, the Abrahamic promise of land results in suffering for our Palestinian brothers and sisters in Christ? This Forum is an attempt to help us think through the issues. Rikk has recently written an article on Israel and Salvation for the Oxford Dictionary of Evangelical Theology.
Rikk E. Watts is Associate Professor of New Testament at Regent College. He is author of a recently published book on the use of Isaiah in the Gospel of Mark entitled Isaiah's New Exodus and Mark.
Bryn Stephenson is a student at Regent College in the MCS program and a graduate of the political science program at the University of Victoria.
