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Ep 23 - Walter Brueggemann ”Struggling with Scripture”

The Deconstructionists

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The Third World's Preferential Option for the Poor

We all have a confirmation bias where we see what we want to see when we approach the text. The mantra of liberation theology, as you know, is God's preferential option for the poor. We need to pay attention to how people in the third world read the Bible. That functions as a kind of an alert or a wake-up call about our biases that we do not even recognize as biases.

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