Watch this interesting video I found on youtube with Walter Brueggemann’s view on the Bible. I’m not sure I agree with everything he says on the ‘mutation’ in God from violence to sacrificial love, but it is something to consider and think about. Does God change? Hm…
Walter Brueggemann
The priority of preaching
Here are three amazing videos on preaching with Walter Brueggemann.
The first one is on the priority of preaching in pastoral ministry:
Here’s another one on preaching as the offer of God’s gracious self:
No single meaning
Quote from Walter Brueggemann, “Divine Presence Amid Violence. Contextualizing the Book of Joshua”, p. ix:
“The conviction that Scripture is revelatory literature is a constant, abiding conviction among the communities of Jews and Christians that gather around the book. But that conviction, constant and abiding as it is, is problematic and open to a variety of alternative and often contradictory or ambiguous meanings. Clearly that conviction is appropriated differently in various contexts and various cultural settings. Current attention to hermeneutics convinces many of us that there is no single, sure meaning for any text. The revelatory power of the text is discerned and given precisely through the action of interpretation which is always concrete, never universal, always contextualized, never ‘above the fray’, always filtered through vested interest, never in disinterested purity.”
