The Poverty of God
One of the primary themes of the psalms is God’s care for the poor. He is their judge and defender. But the bond between God and the poor is extends beyond mere compassion, and into identity. God will not—indeed, he cannot—forget the poor any more than he can forget himself. God is poor and he is inviting us to share in his poverty that we might be rich as he is rich.
Herbert McCabe makes just this argument in a wonderful little essay titled “God and Poverty.”
I want to suggest that there is something godlike about being able to live in poverty; so we shall have to think about the poverty of…
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