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peaceably coexist. He, nevertheless, insisted, that we should persist with our task of trying to achieve a
union like the restored brotherhood of Esau and Jacob. Where we fail, as humans, God will succeed.
Niebuhr concludes that we, in our shortcomings, are to place our faith:
...in the hands of a Divine Power, whose resources are
greater than those of [humans], and whose suffering love
can overcome the corruptions of [human] achievements,
without negating the significance of our striving.
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Amen.
i. R.S. Sugirtharajah, Postcolonial Reconfigurations: An Alternative Way of Reading the Bible and
Doing Theology (St. Louis, MO: Chalice, 2003), p. 124.
ii. “Why Do They Hate Us? Not Because of Iraq,” by Olivier Roy, The New York Times, July 22,
2005, p. A19.
iii. Reinhold Niebuhr, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (NY: Charles Scribner’s
Sons, 1944, renewal copyright 1972), pp. 189-190.
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