Archive for the ‘Self-subversion’ Category

January 9, 2010 5

Brueggemann’s Sunday Morning

By Robert Minto in Preaching, Scripture, Self-subversion

… the work of biblical theology, vis-a-vis systematic theology, is one of tension that is honest but not quarrelsome. In practice, I suggest that it is the liturgy that is to enact the settled coherence of church faith, and the sermon that provides the “alien” witness of the text, which rubs against the liturgic coherence. [...]

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December 29, 2009 5

Pluralism and Self-subversion

By Robert Minto in Politics, Self-subversion, Strategy

Pluralism is generally acknowledged to be a desirable condition for contemporary societies. Yet pluralism’s strongest advocates tend to be the oppressed, those who recognize it as an ideal not yet achieved. For them, advocating pluralism is a sort of survival tactic. The unoppressed, on the other hand, tend to advocate it (to a limited extent [...]

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December 19, 2009 2

Obligation Reflux: A Decisive Self-Subversion

By Robert Minto in Prospects, Scripture, Self-subversion

Well, my intention to resurrect my programmatic reading of Scripture has foundered on the rocks of reconsideration. The problem is that in my intuition, first, of the value of pursuing the theme of obligation, and then, in my second formulation, of pursuing the theme of self-sacrifice, I have merely been clumsily approaching the issue of [...]

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November 20, 2009 0

Faith: Foundation or Target?

By Robert Minto in Faith, Mystery, Self-subversion, Theology

There is a malicious understanding of the life of faith. It goes something like this: to have faith is to believe in certain foundational ideas. The proper result of this belief is a logical and rigorous application of those ideas to all of life. And make no mistake (this understanding says)—all of life will be [...]

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