Walter Brueggemann Quotes - Page 2

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• Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Moon, Use, Sun

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• Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist.

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  Numbness, Voice, States

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• The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.

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  Thinking, Imagination, Meals

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• There are buoyant powers of healing at work in the world that do not depend on us, that we need not finance or keep functioning and that are not at our disposal.

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  Healing, Needs, World

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• If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.

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  Faithful, Church, Notable

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• Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives.

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  Giving, Easy, Burden

  Walter Brueggemann (2010). “Prayers for a Privileged People”, p.169, Abingdon Press

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• While the Passover narrative [in Exodus] energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done at Mt. Sinai. . . . Moses' difficult work at Sinai is to transform the narrative vision of the Exodus into a sustainable social practice that has institutional staying-power, credibility, and authority.

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  Hard Work, Difficult Work, Israel

  Walter Brueggemann (1999). “The Covenanted Self: Explorations in Law and Covenant”, p.49, Fortress Press

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