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Ep 23 - Walter Brueggemann ”Struggling with Scripture”

The Deconstructionists

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The Importance of Certitude in the Church

Dr. Bruggeman: I think that certitude has become an idol for us because we live in such an anxious society and would like to go someplace where it's not falling apart. He says faith does not yield certitude, which is a cognitive category; what faith yields is fidelity, which isA relational category. And so the antidote to certitude is fidelity in relationships between us and the writers of the text," he says.

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