This final incorporation into Jesuit life occurs after participation in a program of final testing that has been called Tertianship, since it represents a third time of probation following the original scrutiny of one’s application to the Society of Jesus and the two-year novitiate experience.
The prophetic voice continues in history and it is that voice that is the subject of this final essay on the Jewish prophets, Jesus, and the prophetic voice in our world today.
Jesus preached that the kingdom of God had irrupted into this world in his words and actions
This essay describes the socio-political context during the emergence of John and Jesus during this time.
This essay describes the socio-political conditions and the prophetic voices of Jeremiah and Second Isaiah (ch 40-66) in the Southern Kingdom of Israel, also called the Kingdom of Judah and Jerusalem, during the seventh to the sixth centuries BCE.