{"id":498,"date":"2009-08-04T22:33:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T03:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/?p=498"},"modified":"2009-08-04T23:05:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T04:05:27","slug":"brueggemann-god-and-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/brueggemann-god-and-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Brueggemann, God and the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a brief interview with an academic mentor of mine about the God of the Bible and the call for the church today.\u00a0 Brueggemann says a few things that will be unsettling to some, but I think his points are thought provoking and important.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zl0hK3ZTVyc<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zl0hK3ZTVyc&amp;feature=related\">Walter Brueggemann on the Bible<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the key quotes in the interview:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I believe the God of the Bible is implicated in the inherent violence of the Bible.<\/li>\n<li>I believe the God of the Bible is a recovering agent of violence&#8230; it (violence) is always latently there.<\/li>\n<li>Violence is intrinsic to our inheritance&#8230; the question is whether or not we can resist this inheritance.<\/li>\n<li>The big revelatory moments are characteristically departures from what has been taken for granted.<\/li>\n<li>There is no final reading to the text &#8212; we are always going to be led somewhere else.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Without doubt most Christians are uncomfortable with calling God a recovering practitioner of violence, but without some serious theological gymnastics, it is hard to dispute &#8212; The God of the Old Testament used violence to bring about his will.\u00a0 Let us not get caught up in this non-traditional description of God, but instead grasp the more important points Brueggemann is trying to make:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The narrative of redemptive history is pointing us in the direction of love where violence is no more.<\/li>\n<li>Each generation is called to further the restoration of the world.<\/li>\n<li>We must often fight with the status quo in order to bring about a better world.<\/li>\n<li>While the next step is not always certain, the direction of the movement is.\u00a0 We must move away from violence and oppression and towards a world where all things are set right.<\/li>\n<li>We must be open to God&#8217;s will in these matters and be bold in our willingness to act.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a brief interview with an academic mentor of mine about the God of the Bible and the call for the church today.\u00a0 Brueggemann says a few things that will be unsettling to some, but I think his points are thought provoking and important. httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zl0hK3ZTVyc Walter Brueggemann on the Bible Here are some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21],"tags":[295,220,212,760,292,294,82,291],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-thoughts","tag-better-world","tag-bible","tag-brueggemann","tag-faith","tag-non-violence","tag-redemption","tag-scripture","tag-violence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}