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Scripture is complex and plural, according to Walter Brueggemann. Even the Ten Commandments immediately generated two alternate streams of interpretation. Thus our deepest obedience cannot be to an absolute norm but to the biblical texts themselves. The texts constantly disturb and disorient us. We are never permitted to settle on a final interpretation. We must forever return to Sinai, to interpret and reinterpret the biblical texts anew.
"It is 588 B.C., just one miserable year before the final collapse of Judah. The inept Zedekiah is on the throne. The Babylonian armies are at the gates of the city. The prophet [Jeremiah] is imprisoned as a subversive agent. This is no time for a wager on the future.
"The word of Yahweh [contradicts] … every social possibility. It is a free word of hope, utterly underived from or linked to the current circumstances. It is on this word that Jeremiah stakes his life and future. …
"Israel's prophets held to a vision of an alternative world in season and out of season. … They were not utterly undone when things got worse, for that was not finally relevant to their vision. … The new world would be a gift from God, who would act in unqualified freedom."
(Walter Brueggemann, Is There No Balm In Gilead?; commenting on Jer. 32:1-15)
"The word of Yahweh [contradicts] … every social possibility. It is a free word of hope, utterly underived from or linked to the current circumstances. It is on this word that Jeremiah stakes his life and future. …
"Israel's prophets held to a vision of an alternative world in season and out of season. … They were not utterly undone when things got worse, for that was not finally relevant to their vision. … The new world would be a gift from God, who would act in unqualified freedom."
(Walter Brueggemann, Is There No Balm In Gilead?; commenting on Jer. 32:1-15)
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2 comments:
I've been a fan of the far side for oh, probably more than twenty years. Did you ever see the one where Satan's mom is passing out milk and cookies?
No — I'm sorry to have missed that one!
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