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Old 03-04-2008, 11:34 AM
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Brueggemann has many interesting literary insights into texts. He is an out and out liberal, however, and so he must be read with quite a bit of salt handy.
Could you give an example of what his being liberal entails?
He makes N.T. Wright look like a bible-thumping Fundamentalist. If you take Christ out of his commentaries, it doesn't really change anything. If you take certain social activists out, it changes everything.
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