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75 - Walter Brueggemann on Reading the Old Testament

Conversing with Mark Labberton

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Heschel's Language and the Pathos of God

I do think that one of the things that links you and Heschel to is artistry. He's not just writing a kind of dispassionate declaration about the fact that God has pathos. He's actually verbalizing the passion of God while he's describing the passion ofGod. This is what you do. And it's partly why I think your language is so powerful in both preaching and in writing. You use prose really in a pretty disciplined, tight way. Your sentences end with strong, single, syllable words. They are forceful, artistic English. That's how I read your stuff. It's been a hard journey because when I started out, I had what my teacher

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