The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.
Walter BrueggemannPersonal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist.
Walter BrueggemannCompassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural, but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.
Walter Brueggemann