Visshet vs. Trohet

“We all have a hunger for certitude. And the problem is the Gospel is not about certitude, it’s about fidelity. So what we all want to do if we can is immediately transpose fidelity into certitude. Because fidelity is a relational category and certitude is a flat mechanical category. So we have to acknowledge our thirst for certitude, and then recognize if you had all the certitudes in the world, it would not make the quality of your life any better, because what we must have is fidelity.”

Walter Brueggemann – Emergent Conversation – 2004 – Day One Part One (16:55)

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