“The central achievement of biblical religion was to
remove the veil of anonymity from the workings of history. There are no
ultimate laws, no eternal ideas. The Lord alone is ultimate and eternal. The
laws are His creation, and the moral ideas are not entities apart from Him;
they are His concern. Indeed, the personalization of the moral idea is the
indispensable assumption of prophetic theology. Mercy, grace, repentance,
forgiveness, all would be impossible if the moral principle were held to be
superior to God. God's call to man,
which resounds so frequently in the utterances of the prophets, presupposes an
ethos based, not upon immutable principles, but rather upon His eternal
concern.” — Polish-born American Jewish theologian Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel
(1907-1972), The Prophets (1962)
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