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Minority Reports: Voicing Neglected Biblical Texts

Minority Reports: Voicing Neglected Biblical Texts

Klitsie, Mark
Baltz, Bill

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General Christianity

Publisher Price: $29.00

ISBN10: 1498235964
ISBN13: 9781498235969
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published: Jun 3 2016
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The stuff that comes after modernism isn't all bad. Postmodernism, not needing everything to be buttoned up, can leave things dangling; it can pay attention to the obscure, marginal, and particular. The postmodern dynamic invites one to revisit biblical texts that do not fit into tidy, cherished theological constructs: I call these texts the minority reports. Popular theology infers that God is just pretending when he changes his mind or gets frustrated, saddened, and affected by humans--this understanding is guided by concepts of God's omni-attributes. But these wise and well-intentioned concepts fail to portray a God who will not be domesticated. Certain biblical narratives trace YHWH's hiddenness, suffering, changeability, and hostility--this awkward shadow side of YHWH is sometimes selectively overlooked. The fear of God is gone. Instead we have the ever-tolerant, universal God who is in danger of evaporating into spirit, light, and love. As a theologian I use Hebrew block logic: competing truths in the Bible are kept intact; synthesis isn't necessarily sought. God chooses us and we choose God; God is self-sufficient, all-powerful, and all-knowing, needing no creature. Yet he chooses to limit his omni-ness in the human arena and makes himself vulnerable to humans. He hyphenates his name with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob--and the church--at a risk.

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