No Mercy, No Justice
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No Mercy, No Justice

The Dominant Narrative of America versus the Counter-Narrative of Jesus' Parables

  1. 282 pages
  2. English
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No Mercy, No Justice

The Dominant Narrative of America versus the Counter-Narrative of Jesus' Parables

About this book

How can we be just and merciful? Are justice and mercy in conflict? Or are they aspects of the same truth?Christians in America are presented with two conflicting versions of justice and mercy.One version comes from the dominant secular narrative of America. Justice and mercy are contradictions. Mercy is devalued and discouraged.But within the counter narrative of God revealed through Torah, the prophets, and particularly through the life and parables of Jesus, justice and mercy are aspects of the same truth and way of God. There is no justice without mercy. There is no mercy without justice.In this book, Rev. Brooks Harrington draws on more than 40 years' experience as a criminal prosecutor, a pastor of an inner-city church in an impoverished neighborhood, and the founder of a legal ministry protecting indigent victims of family violence and child neglect and abuse. Through moving stories of women and children he has encountered, he shows the terrible toll of the dominant narrative's version of justice and mercy. And he offers Christians hope with new and startling insights into God's justice and mercy revealed in the parables of Jesus.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1: Unjust and Merciless
  6. Chapter 2: The Justice and Mercy of God?
  7. Chapter 3: The Dominant Narrative of America
  8. Chapter 4: The Counter-Narrative of God
  9. Chapter 5: Justice and Mercy under the DominantĀ Narrative of America
  10. Chapter 6: The Toll of the Dominant Narrative
  11. Chapter 7: God’s Justice and Mercy Proclaimed in the Parables of Jesus
  12. Chapter 8: If There Is No Mercy, There Is No Justice
  13. Chapter 9: A Midrash on Mark 4 and 5