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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...

God calls the man by a different name, not self. He calls him by his right name. God is the one who knows the names of all the players. Your name is not self; your name is fool. You act your name, fool that you are, so greedy that you have isolated yourself, so acquisitive that you have lost your soul, your self. You have been so covetous that you have organized your life against your own personhood. We can all play this role with this one word. Say it with me: “FOOL!” Being God is demanding, because
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