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Truth-Telling as Subversive Obedience is unavailable, but you can change that!

Urging loyalty to the personal truth embodied in Christ over any other institution, Walter Brueggemann critiques our subtle submission to cultural paradigms and encourages truth telling. Brueggemann shows how undivided fidelity to Christ is the only way to remain aware of the world’s pain and how the gospel works in all times and places.

reference to the traditional authority of the church.5 This notion of freedom is already rooted in Descartes’s establishment of the human doubter as the norm of truth. Locke contributed to the cause with his notion of the human person as a rational, free decider, and Kant completed the “Turn Toward the Subject,” in making the human autonomous actor the one who will shape functional reality. This Enlightenment ideology has received its popular form in a Freudian theory of repression in which human
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