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Empire and God: Do They Mix? (Out of Babylon, Brueggemann 1)

Political Philosophy

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Walter Bergman is an OG of Old Testament theology. He's very much into close textual analysis, but he's also willing to take leaps that allow us to see the significance of these otherwise kind of obscure or specific historical texts. And so for instance, he says it's no new thing to suggest that the contemporary United States mirrors ancient Babylon and it's totalizing propensity.

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