The biblical 'text' does not require interpretation or application so that it can be brought near our experience and circumstance. rather, the text is so powerful and compelling, so passionate and uncompromising in its anguish and hope, that it requires we submit our experience to it and thereby reenter our experience on new terms, namely the terms of the text. The text does not need to be applied to our situation. Rather, our situation needs to be submitted to the text for a fresh discernment. It is our situation, not the text, that requires a new interpretation. In every generation, this text subverts all our readings of reality and forces us to a new, dangerous, obedient reading.
Walter Brueggemann
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Material Courtesy:
Prathi Dina Veda Padhana Sahayi (Daily bible Study Guide, Malayalam), Back Cover
(July October 2009)
Published by: Dr. Thomas Mar Athanasius Memorial Research and Orientation Centre
Managanam PO, Kottayam 686 018
( A Mar Thoma Church Institution)
email: tmamaroc@sancharnet.in
Walter Brueggemann
more on this person, click here
Material Courtesy:
Prathi Dina Veda Padhana Sahayi (Daily bible Study Guide, Malayalam), Back Cover
(July October 2009)
Published by: Dr. Thomas Mar Athanasius Memorial Research and Orientation Centre
Managanam PO, Kottayam 686 018
( A Mar Thoma Church Institution)
email: tmamaroc@sancharnet.in
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