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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...

This matter of contextualism is of particular interest to those who practice something like a “liberation hermeneutic.”30 Indeed, such voices are often dismissed as “context-conditioned.” Such voices of interpretation, however, do not pretend otherwise; they do not deny the power of context in their discernment. They want to insist only that as their own view is contextual, so also is every other view, including those that claim to be objective and noncontextual. Contextualism argues that the knower
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