He can analyze with the skill of the great scholar he is; he can pound the pulpit like the passionate preacher he is; he can sing like the poet whose soul is full of the poetry of faith. He is a bitter opponent of relativism and half-truth, and he will not let his reader "off the hook" with either. In the end, he points his reader to a God who is equally loving and demanding.
Walter Brueggemann is never graceless, but he is always honest.
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