“We may as well concede at the outset that we live, all of us, in a promiscuous, self-indulgent society that prizes autonomy. As a consequence, ‘obedience’ is a tough notion, which we settle mostly either by the vaguest of generalizations, or by confining subject matter to those areas already agreed upon.” – Walter Brueggeman

His book Truth Telling as Subversive Obedience is a good read, though at only about 100 pages you should not judge the slim size of it as light weight in terms of content. This is a book worth taking time to read, and time to digest.

As I’ve commented on Twitter, Brueggeman is quickly becoming one of my favourite authors.