"The world does not believe in newness. It believes that things must remain as they are. Shalom affirms that in a world of kings, prophets must be heard and taken seriously; that in the world of technicians, the voice of the poet is essential for the humanness of our world. That is where the church might take its stand. We are in danger of silencing the prophets domesticating the poets, and squeezing out the sources of newness among us. This danger implies an agenda for the church.
Obviously it is easier to state such an agenda than to bring it off. But that is the hard place where the crucifixion-resurrection people have always been called to be. It is the tension between those who dream about what is yet to be given in God's promises and those who manage what is already possessed. And surely that is what our best Reformation heritage is about: that we do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised."
- Walter Brueggemann, Peace p.133
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