He’s published dozens of books of theology, sermons, and prayers over the past four decades. It was a thrill to meet this man, whose writings I’d so long admired. Tippett: I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being. I think that happens from time to time like that. But it was language that was out beyond the quarrels that we do. He wasn’t really talking about enacting a civil rights bill, except that he was. If you just think of “I Have a Dream,” it just kind of soared away. Walter Brueggemann: I think Martin Luther King did, sometimes - I think at his best he was a biblical poet. “The task is reframing,” he says, “so that we can re-experience the social realities that are right in front of us from a different angle.” He somehow also embodies this tradition’s fearless truth-telling together with fierce hope - and how it conveys that with disarming language. He translates their imagination from the chaos of ancient times to our own. Krista Tippett, host: Walter Brueggemann is one of the world’s great teachers about the prophets who both anchor the Hebrew Bible and have transcended it across history.
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