The Divine Pedagogy of Formation X - THE AGONY OF A FORMEE

Abstract

Jeremiah’s story is unique in many respects. Through his writings he gave free expression to his emotional stat into his mind to comprehend and decipher the confusions and conflicts he experienced during his prophetic ministry. It was a critical period in the history of Israel in which Jeremiah had to play the role of a prophet of doom, who had to remind the people of the consequence of their infidelity – the end of the kingdom of Judah. Jeremiah was entrusted with a difficult task. First of all he should root out, pull down, eradicate and tear down rampant evil structures of the society, namely the economics of affluence, which makes few richer at the expense of the majority of the population, politics of oppression and exploitation, and a static and triumphant religion. Only then he could build and plant a new society, based on the divine economics of equality, politics of justice and compassion, and a religion of God’s freedom. His writings unveil an objecting, rebelling, lamenting, non-cooperating, difficult, repenting and suffering formee. God, the Divine Pedagogue had to employ a variety of refining methods to haul out the expected results from his elect under configuration.