The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform in our own lives. There is nothing innocuous or safe about the Gospel. Jesus did not get crucified because he was a nice man. Walter Brueggemann More Quotes by Walter Brueggemann More Quotes From Walter Brueggemann 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 God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history. Walter Brueggemann casts gods-will order Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch and handle is not likely to retain its promissory call to a new future. Hope expressed only in the present tense will no doubt be coopted by the managers of this age Walter Brueggemann tense age doubt Every imperial agent wants to reduce what is possible to what is available. Walter Brueggemann available agents want Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity. Walter Brueggemann celebration-of-life celebration sabbath Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist. Walter Brueggemann numbness voice states 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 world needs 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 meals imagination thinking 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 notable faithful church 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 difficult-work hard-work israel Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives. Walter Brueggemann burden easy giving
