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The Peculiar Dialect of Faith
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Books > Theology > Theology Books
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| Author/Artist: |
WALTER BRUEGGEMANN, |
| ISBN / ID: |
9781666715170 |
| Publisher: |
Cascade Books |
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PAPERBACK |
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AU$33.95 |
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Biblical utterance, offers imaginative probes into the mystery of God's creation and into human hurt and human hope. Thus the dialect of the Bible offers relational terms, so that lived reality characteristically concerns justice and righteousness, steadfast love, faithfulness, and compassion.
Insofar as the church relies upon and attests to this dialect, the church is sometimes seduced away from this relational dialect to speak in ways that are alien to the Bible and to the claims of the gospel.
Such seduction takes place, for example, when our nation is at war and the church is tempted to reflect and reiterate the force of that social reality. Or such seduction occurs with ideological conservatism that craves the language of certitude, or ideological liberalism that is easily bewitched by the rhetoric of psychology or the market. The church then loses its distinctiveness, its nerve and its courage for serious mission. |
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