Walter Brueggemann on the Bible

Interviewer, David Felten, asks Hebrew Scriptures scholar, Walter Brueggemann, about justifying violence based on scripture. Also, prophetic voices that are 'departures from what has been taken for granted' have challenged the way we see the world and encourage us to be open to others around us who may be different.
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[MegaUTUBESUCKS]

On the contrary, Brueggemann never refers to a "God of the Hebrew Bible", instead, it is "the God of the Bible" he speaks of, thus adhering to his statement that the entire Bible is saturated with violence both in the New and Old Testament. As for Jesus and Hosea, Brueggemann does label them "mutants", but only in order to discuss how they function as "departures from what has been taken for granted", allowing him to further discuss other departures (e.g. liberation, feminist, & gay theologies).

[Theo123244]

Brueggemann presents a very deficient view: that Jesus has trumped the God of the Hebrew Bible, who is "a recovering agent of violence" and those who Brueggemann likes (such as Jesus and Hosea) are mutations of this God.

[derocdero]

Uh, speak English...

[petemillner]

I know! One bunch are yelling "But we believe that God is all powerful!" and the others are going "But we believe God is all-knowing!" But they both actually love the fact that God is both of those things. For we know in part, and prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.

[Arminian100]

I see. Now it makes more sense. It's all cool, and I'm glad to hear we can agree on something like that. Oddly enough, Arminians and Calvinists agree on far more than they disagree about... if either of them really understood the other then they'd know this! haha.

[petemillner]

Those comments were for tntpierce, I don't know why youtube attached them to you. Sorry if it was my fault via my techno-ineptitude. On a side note, I find it interesting that I am an ardent Calvinist in many ways, yet have far more in common with you, Arminian100, than I do with this other joker.

[Arminian100]

Also, I don't view any pornographic videos. I have NO videos favorited. I'm very confused about what you're talking about.

[Arminian100]

I wasn't calling Brueggemann a heretic, I was defending him. I was parroting what tntpierce had said, using it to call tntpierce a heretic. Not Brueggemann.

[petemillner]

as for you, I can see what you favourite. How can you sleep at night!? How can you say all these ivory-tower statements about heresy when your favourite videos are all about lascivious pornography? It makes me so sad when people think they can just chuck a passing comment at a master of the Word like brueggemann on their own authority, and have nothing, NOTHING to say for themselves but what their filthy habits are a witness to.

[petemillner]

How can you be so flippant in disregarding and dismissing a scholar who has passionately read and re-read the bible for so many decades??? How can you hold in contempt someone who loves God with such a servant heart?? It's just tragic!