Walter Brueggemann Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  47 Copiar cita

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

  Walter Brueggemann

  Numbness, Voice, States

  11 Copiar cita

• 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.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Thinking, Imagination, Meals

  7 Copiar cita

• 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.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Healing, Needs, World

  9 Copiar cita

• 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.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Faithful, Church, Notable

  11 Copiar cita

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

  Walter Brueggemann

  Giving, Easy, Burden

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

  4 Copiar cita

• 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.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Hard Work, Difficult Work, Israel

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

  4 Copiar cita

También te puede gustar:

Peter Block

Eugene H. Peterson

Stanley Hauerwas

N. T. Wright

Barbara Brown Taylor

Marcus Borg

Miroslav Volf

Frederick Buechner