Ezekiel's Cherub: A promising symbol or a dangerous idol?

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: Launderville, Dale | Copyright information

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THE PROCESS by which boundaries in communities are formed and maintained necessarily involves the engagement of the human heart and mind. Building walls or moving to a new location is often not a possible response to conflict. The prophet Ezekiel understood that such engagement was necessary to deal constructively with the formless, wild, and chaotic moments of collective and individual human experience. As a Zadokite pri...

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