Abstract
Around the globe at any moment in history we witness a world in which numerous nations simultaneously struggle with the person or party in power. Often, we hear senior citizens long for a return to “the good old days.” But biblical anthropology reminds us that everyone by nature is sinful (willingly disobedient to God’s laws); and Qoheleth corrects those who long for a past golden age, because such thinking is not realistic. There never has been a government under which people were not oppressed, even the Hebrew theocracy of the Old Testament. Over the centuries, whether in the East or West, Southern or Northern hemisphere, leaders of countries or companies often have been disappointing. Those over whose reign we currently fret, at their worst, have nothing on many past pretenders to bring prosperity. The Hebrew Bible testifies to this sad reality and to its reasons.
DOI
10.7252/Journal.01.2021S.03
Recommended Citation
Marlowe, W. Creighton
(2021)
"Trump Was Trumped Long Ago: or, the Legacy of Leadership in the Book of Ecclesiastes,"
The Asbury Theological Journal:
Vol. 76:
No.
1, p. 25-34.
Available at:
https://place.asburyseminary.edu/asburyjournal/vol76/iss1/4
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