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Walter Brueggemann issues a passionate call for a bold restructuring of the imagination of faith in our “postmodern” context. Old assumptions—rational, objectivist, absolutist—have for the most part given way to new outlooks, which can be grouped under the term “postmodern.” What does this new situation imply for the church and for Christian proclamation? Can one find in this new situation...

IT IS NOW CLEAR TO MANY OF US, in the academy and in the church, that we are in a quite new interpretive situation that constitutes something of an emergency. That emergency in interpretation is the result of a radical shift of categories of culture, for which interpreters of faith in the West have not been well prepared. It is inevitable that our categories of interpretation are deeply influenced by and in large part informed by the modes of culture in
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