Reinventing Liberal Christianity (Hobson, Theo)

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am suggesting that liberal Christianity must rediscover this dialogical, psychomachic tradition that was marginalized by deism and secularized by Romanticism. Not only is it a basic aspect of primary Christian speech

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Abraham is depicted as leaving the gods of his fathers, in obedience to God’s voice. This tradition is able to put a question mark over all ritual practices. God decrees them, which means that he is free from them — he is theoretically knowable apart from them, as he was to Abraham. But in practice he chooses to be known through rituals: an adaptation of the Canaanite sacrificial system, rooted in the agricultural year, and the