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Wednesday, September 29, 2004Prophetic Imagination I have just finished this book by Walter Bruggeman. It has some fantastic concepts in there - it is has really transformed my view of prophetic ministry and in fact all Christian ministry. Her are his latest 19 theses. If they make any sense to you, you may enjoy them! 1) Everyone lives by a script. 2) We get scripted through normal nurture and socialization. 3) The dominant script of our society is that of technological-therapeutic-mulitarist-consumerism. 4) This script promises safety and happiness. 5) This script has failed. 6) The health of our society depends on moving beyond this script, but doesn't want to. 7) [The task of Christian] Ministry must de-script this dominant script. 8) This task is accomplished thru alternative scripting, or the funding of a counter imagination. 9) This alternative script is funded by the scripture and tradition of the Church. 10) This alternative script is about the Triune God. 11) This alternative script is not monolithic, total, complete, but it is rather a rag-tag, disjunctive collection hinting at a hidden God. 12) This rag-tag script can't be smoothed out or domesticated (not even by systematic theologies/ians). 13) This script invites adherent of text to quarrel with each other. 14) The entree into this alternative script is Baptism. 15) The nurture/socialization of this counter script is the work of ministry. 16) Most of us are ambiguous about this alternative script. That is, we really want both scripts and vacillate between them. 17) The space of ambivalence toward scripts is the arena of the Spirit. 18) Ministry is the manager of this ambivalence. 19) The work of ministry is necessary because no one else but the church (and synagogue) is willing/able to enter this open of ambivalence. and Concerning faith and knowledge: "We all have a craving for certitude, but the gospel is all about fidelity." By this he means that certitude is an epistemological category while fidelity is a relational one. And the way of the Cross is to depart from our certitude, to die to our answers/desires/scripts. [via Jonny Baker] Posted by: Mark | 8:46 am |
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