T. Gorringe

Touchstones of Moral Possibility? Ethics, Idolatry, and the Christian Community

The paper argues that though we usually think of the prophets as social or moral critics, their principal concern is idolatry. They oppose the unique God YHWH to the Ba’alim – still familiar to us in terms of a particular community, nation, religion, money, sex, and so forth. YHWH's particularity required in response a...