[Oe List ...] Old Prophets

[Richard Alton]

thanks, Dick

On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM W. J. via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> The Young Prophets Collective just finished their first prophetic retreat.
> That leaves me wondering—
> what happened to the *Old *Prophets?
> And when did we turn into the Old Guard?
> Some of us died recently. Notably Walter Bruggemann:
>
> “We will not understand the meaning of prophetic imagination unless we see
> the connection between the *religion of static triumphalism *and the *politics
> of oppression and exploitation,*” Dr. Brueggemann wrote in “The Prophetic
> Imagination.”
>
> I for one have had *way* more than enough of "the *religion of static
> triumphalism* and the *politics of oppression and exploitation*."
>
> Marshall Jones
>
>
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/us/walter-brueggemann-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P08.Yfef.Vbwao1vaUZ1H&smid=url-share
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