The Thick & Thin Man by Mark Tooley

The Thick & Thin Man

Walter Brueggemann’s Penumbral Notions & Theatrical Sense

by Mark Tooley

It is a long journey from the eighteenth-century Calvinist theologian Jonathan Edwards to modern deconstructionist Walter Brueggemann. But the latter, ordained in the United Church of Christ that descends from Edwards’s Congregationalists, is becoming as big a name in American church circles as the former was in his day.

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Mark Tooley directs the United Methodist committee of the Institute on Religion and Democracy (www.ird-renew.org) in Washington, D.C.

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