Walter Brueggemann has awesome ideas and I am glad that this is posted up and that we are able to see fresh ideas (even though he’s been out of the game for a while) and not just the same theologians over and over again.

In my class over postmodern theology my instructor wrote this about Genz’s thoughts on Scripture in a postmodern context:

“Genz adherence to postmodern thinking about scripture and truth, he seemed to reduce Scripture to a vehicle (or tool) for the Spirit to speak presently. The actual authority contained or deposited into this written document is subtly replaced with an “instrumental” authority. This tendency is common among postmodern theologians.”

I believe that this comment and what Brueggemann is saying are both on par. That the Spirit used the Apostles and the writers of Scripture but used the Apostles personalities and characters to write as well. As the writer of this post writes, “believes be to be too loose of an idea and to lose for his faith,” i believe that it would have to be that way other wise we are just robots in God’s world. We’re not, he doesn’t control our minds and hearts but let’s us live our lives in relation to the Trinity and the Spirit dwelling inside of us.