Jeremias and the God of the Heart

1. Why does Fr. Bouyer entitle this chapter "Jeremias and the God of the Heart"?

2. According to Fr. Bouyer, Jeremiah's message is that God will chastise His people?  Does this mean that God is destroying the Covenant?

3. What does Fr. Bouyer mean when he claims that "Jeremias, by his bold expression of the interior struggles of his soul, aided Israel to understand that God had not abandoned them in delivering them to the ordeal.  What is more, he helped them efficaciously to find the divine presence in the heart of the ordeal ...."

4. According to Fr. Bouyer, Jeremiah reproaches the people "above all" for what?

5. What does Fr. Bouyer mean when he says that, with Jeremiah, "we are at the extreme limit of the Old Covenant"?  

6. Compare Jeremiah and Ezekiel on the promise of a "New Covenant."