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The Christian gospel, says Brueggemann, is too easily preached and heard. Too often technical reason and excessive religious certitude reduce the gospel to coercive, debilitating pietisms that mask the text’s meaning and freeze the hearers heart. With skill and imagination, Brueggemann demonstrates how the preacher can engage in daring speech—differently voiced and therefore differently heard....

The narrative lets us watch while Daniel resists in order to have freedom, and while Nebuchadnezzar relinquishes for sanity. It may be as important as it is odd that our textual base for an alternative humanity is found in these peculiar tales, scarcely reasonable, telling more than is explained, voicing what the regime preferred to silence. It takes such poetic rendering to move beyond the seduction of command (Daniel 1) and the seduction of decree (Daniel 4) to another life in the empire.
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