"The gospel is fiction when judged by the……" — Walter Brueggemann

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire… - Walter Brueggemann

"The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel."

— Walter Brueggemann

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21 Quotes by Walter Brueggemann

Walter Brueggemann has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and…
Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the…
Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.
Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the…
The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and…
When serious people of good faith disagree, they've got to go back into the narratives and come at it again.…
People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and…
Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet…
We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote…
The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who…
We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment…
The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform…

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More Empire Quotes

This quote is filed under Empire Quotes, one of 599 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United… — Margaret Atwood
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. — Dave Barry
I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I… — Victoria Beckham
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire… — William Blake
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid… — James Buchan
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire… — Julie Burchill
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. — Edmund Burke
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no… — George W. Bush
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. — Samuel Butler
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms… — Benjamin Carson
I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet. — Hugo Chavez
I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country -… — Hugo Chavez

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