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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...

to construct a full alternative world, for that would be to act as preemptively and imperialistically as all those old construals and impositions. Rather, the task is to fund—to provide the pieces, materials, and resources out of which a new world can be imagined. Our responsibility, then, is not a grand scheme or a coherent system, but the voicing of a lot of little pieces out of which people can put life together in fresh configurations. These little pieces of evangelical faith, which constitute
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