What Does God Think About Brexit? by David Nixon

Author:David Nixon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030339425
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

A Theological Response

Theological resources may respond to anxiety and uncertainty in two ways: by addressing these feelings and providing an antidote in trust and redeemed relationship; and by reflecting back these situations in biblical narratives—more a living with, in and through those uncomfortable feelings rather than changing them. The bridge between these responses is often provided by liturgy and public worship.

One of the reasons evinced for anxiety and uncertainty is a breakdown in relations and therefore a lack of trust between different sections of society, and between different geographies and generations, which becomes reinforced in a vicious circle. The Word made flesh, the doctrine of the incarnation, is evidence of God’s trust in us as human beings, a trust which is generous enough to risk sharing that humanity. The salvation history which Christians traditionally hear at the Easter Vigil begins with creation, including human creation in Genesis, passes through an account of human alienation, then God’s threat of extinction redeemed in Noah. God’s chosen people the Jews are freed from slavery to cross the Red Sea with the Promised Land ahead of them. Although this people disregard God, rebel and violate the gift of the Land to the point of exile, God never abandons them. By the end of the Old Testament, in Jonah for example, the particularism of the Pentateuch has given way to a more universal stance—this God is not simply a God of the Jews, but of the whole of humanity (Ateek 2017). So the incarnation which begins the New Testament, witnessed in Luke and Matthew as a family story, and in John as a theological exploration, might come as less of a surprise. God’s love and trust has never really been in doubt, butLong ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds. He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word. (Hebrews 1: 1–3)

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