Making a New Beginning: Biblical Reflections on Jubilee

The hope in this resource is that it will assist individuals, groups and church committees in deepening their understanding of the biblical roots of Jubilee, the centrality of the Spirit of Jubilee in the Bible and the urgency of rediscovering this Spirit today.

The contributions are diverse, reflecting: concerns with different biblical texts and treads of stories behind them; sensibilities and hermeneutics of different denominations and other theological differences; experiences with different social movements; and the preoccupations of scholars in longer articles and of preachers in shorter reflections and sermons. But the contributors are united in their commitment to Jubilee concerns for release from debt and other forms of slavery, redistribution of wealth, and rest for the earth, to support for campaigns addressing these issues and to the renewal of theology and the whole life of the church in this Spirit.