THEO 11 FINALS

GOD'S
PURPOSE OF
SHALOM
Marjorie Viola
 DEI VERBUM (2)

Through this revelation, therefore,

the invisible God, out of the
abundance of His love speaks to
men as friends and lives among
them, so that He may invite and
take them into fellowship with
Himself
 DEI VERBUM (3)

God, through His words, created all

things
 GENESIS 1:3

“And God said, ‘Let there be light,

and there was light.”
 GENESIS 2:7

“Then the Lord God formed a man

from the dust of the ground and
breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life, and the man became
a living being.”
 GENESIS 2:18

“It is not good for the man to be alone. I will

make a helper suitable for him.”
GENESIS 1: 20

“God blessed them and said, ‘Be fruitful and

increase in number and fill the water in the seas,
and let the birds increase on the earth.”
 Brokennes of Shalom

GREAT FLOOD
GENESIS 1 & 2 GENESIS 3 GENESIS 6
Intended to wipe
Everything is in Adam and Eve Regretteded making
out all of creation
order disobeyed God humans

In a state of Shalom was broken

SHALOM
 GENESIS 6: 5 - 6

“The Lord saw how great the wickedness

of the human race had become on the
earth, and that every inclination of the
thoughts of the human heart was only
evil all the time. The Lord regretted that
he had made human beings on the earth,
and his heart was deeply troubled.”
RESTORATION OF SHALOM
THE COVENANTS

NOAH ABRAHAM MOSES (MT. SINAI)

- God as a Merciful - God as a Selfless Covenant – making

Father Father moment that
- Genesis 9: 9 - 11 - Three - fold promsies strengthens the
(Genesis 12: 1 – 3) relational bond the
- What God goes Israelites have with God
for Abraham 
 EXODUS 6: 7

“I will be your God, and you will be

my people.”
FAITH AS A DIMENSION OF THE HUMAN

“human existence consists in

freedom.”
ROGER HAIGHT
THE
10 COMMANDMENTS
DECALOGUE

- The commandments are in simple future tense/infinitives and the

obligations were merely “stated” and not demanded
Spirituality of
Shalom
SPIRITUALITY (ROGER HAIGHT)
Consistent quality of a person’s or a group’s pattern of
living insofar as it is measured before some ultimate
reality

SHALOM (WALTER BRUGGEMANN)

As a state of harmony within God’s creation; there is no
division, hostility, fear, selfishness, and misery

SPIRITUALITY OF SHALOM
Consistent pattern of living directed towards shalom
3 DIMENSIONS OF SHALOM
SHALOM, WALTER BRUGGEMANN

FIRST
Shalom is a vision encompassing all reality, expressed in
the mystery and majesty of creation images

SECOND
The historic and political community
- politics of justice
- economics of equality

THIRD
- Shalom as a sense of well – being experienced by the
person who lives a caring, sharing, joyous life in community
 EXODUS 6: 7

“I will be your God, and you will be

my people.”