tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6547653347296107692.post657546827390116142..comments2024-01-09T12:59:32.666+01:00Comments on Narrative and Ontology: A great critique of Brueggemann!Phil Sumpterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491514886782881340noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6547653347296107692.post-35661649172948314182009-01-13T09:20:00.000+01:002009-01-13T09:20:00.000+01:00I think it's probably healthy to go through a Brue...I think it's probably healthy to go through a Brueggemann phase. He's so iconic of what is going on culturally in at least the Anglo-Saxon sphere (it seems to me) that he is loved because he speaks to a felt need. Many are experiencing the disintegration of which he speaks and are looking for a way out. His way out is eloquent, exciting, and new. I just think it's theologically thin and so, though helpful for his many insights, cannot offer anything of real substance to the churhc. <BR/><BR/>I hope you post your thoughts on him in the coming months ...Phil Sumpterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16491514886782881340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6547653347296107692.post-90633094814001390322009-01-12T19:24:00.000+01:002009-01-12T19:24:00.000+01:00There was a time when I was a passionate Brueggema...<I>There was a time when I was a passionate Brueggemannian.</I><BR/><BR/>I think this is a requisite for students of our generation, no? :-) My experience is much like yours as you describe it here. I took his <I>Theology of the Old Testament</I> with me to Puerto Rico (sadly, I had to leave it behind in my recent move); I re-read a couple of years ago and assessed it much differently then than I had originally done. Unpacking my books over the past couple of months, I have found, to my amazement, a large stack of Brueggemann's books--many more than I thought I had. I have decided to re-read them all in the coming months and years, and see what, if anything,I make of them now.Esteban Vázquezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09738869673774603152noreply@blogger.com