"We now know that human transformation does not……" — Walter Brueggemann
"We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality."
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Walter Brueggemann
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21 Quotes by Walter Brueggemann
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And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and…
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Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the…
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Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.
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Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the…
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The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and…
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The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.
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When serious people of good faith disagree, they've got to go back into the narratives and come at it again.…
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People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and…
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Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet…
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We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote…
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The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who…
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The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform…
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You got to be just stupid to not be focused on alternative energy.
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You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good…
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Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and…
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Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
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The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
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