The Emancipation of God
The Emancipation of God: Postmarks on Cultural Prophecy
Edited by Conrad L. Kanagy
Fortress Press, 2024.
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Understanding the gospel as emancipation has been central to Walter Brueggemann’s biblical interpretation. This book illustrates the theme’s centrality, addressing the emancipation of God from our attempts to control, the emancipation of the church to be the people of an emancipated God, and the emancipation of the gospel to be a cultural prophecy.
This volume divides into three parts: “The Emancipation of God,” “The Emancipation of the Church,” and “The Emancipation of the Neighborhood.” What the three parts hold in common is the kingdom of God. In each chapter, Brueggemann grinds away at biblical texts that have been muffled, silenced, and disabled to free the text from its cultural entrapments so that that the liberated text can speak for an emancipated God and a liberated church to free the world.
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Alexanndra Trovato · February 14, 2024 at 6:04 pm
I am finally writing a book through fan story, only, about Liberal Christianity. Actually, my book is mostly non-fiction and takes on all Liberals within our world’s religions. During my (vast, sleepless) research, I came across your work as well as others. The main character in my book interviews authors like you, and presents your exact words, within a fictional podcast, “In the Church of A Liberal Bystander.” I’ve been feeling like I am watching other groups own Jesus etc. I was baptized and raised in the Greek Orthodox Church and I am a Liberal, as was Jesus, I believe. The little contest for which I’m writing, requires a whopping 30k words, so I must go. Thank you for your presence. good writing, and open mind. I was a teacher now disabled from MS. I have a master’s degree in Literacy that I haven’t been able to use but just FYI. With Peace, Alexandra Trovato