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Taking biblical passages that most Christians are familiar with, Walter Brueggemann draws out new meaning around the theme of God’s grace to us as servants. He argues that we are most free when we are most enslaved to the Lord’s will, as the passions of the moment and the idols of cultures lose their grip on us. Brueggemann’s work is filled with passion for edifying the church, with insights both...

Thus my thesis is in two parts: 1. While always living at the edge of authoritarianism, the theme of “fear of God” articulated a unified, coherent ordering of life and urged attentiveness to and responsibility for the quality of social transactions. 2. The dominant values of modernity (which are marked by autonomy, secularization, and individualism) aim at social relations that are reduced to technique, at a quality of life that is finally profane, and at a character of personhood that is reduced
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