Mr. Brueggemann: That’s right. We occur to think memorizing Bible verses is a great thing because you then have actually the written text available that will produce this stuff — because exactly what a metaphor or image does would be to ask you to definitely keep walking around it and seeking at it another method and observing another thing. It’s a present that keeps on providing.

Music: “Keymaster” by Janus

Ms. Tippett: I’m Krista Tippett, and also this is On Being. Today, the imagination that is prophetic of Brueggemann.

Ms. Tippett: If we asked you in this manner: In terms of your image of God, are there any metaphors that have actually talked for you across time or that talk with you given that didn’t before? Is there metaphors that have actually arrive at you in your lifetime as a being that is human in your study as being a scholar as well as your act as a preacher to be much more and more meaningful?

Mr. Brueggemann: i do believe they fundamentally arise away from my continuing to check out the written text.

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