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Ep 23 - Walter Brueggemann ”Struggling with Scripture”

The Deconstructionists

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The Role of the Bible in Modern Life

Until the crisis of science in the 19th century, I don't think that the Reformation traditions reduced it to a paper pope. The Bible has been largely co-opted into capitalism so that to very many people, the Bible sounds like capitalism. If you take Adam Smith as the father of modern capitalism, then capitalism is a big rival for the script of the Bible.

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