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This volume contains Walter Brueggemann’s most recent public sermons and prayers. With captivating and convicting messages for this rebellious age, Brueggemann nourishes the Christian spirit and challenges the fickle heart. With the deep theological scholarship one would expect of Brueggemann, and the surprising passion and dynamism of a youthful spirit, Inscribing the Text is full of the insight...

be marked by practices of truth, justice, and lowliness. This was not possible before doxology, and the doxology was not possible until he heard the truth. The dream of the night has subverted the illusion of the day. These are four cases of truth-speaking-to-power. We could cite many others in scripture and beyond, and it might be enough to say to those who preach, “Go and do likewise.” But I have cited these four cases precisely because I want to consider the challenge of that crisp model of
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