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Dare to challenge God
Christian Century, April 4, 2006
DARE TO CHALLENGE GOD: In the high Middle Ages university education took the form of disputations. Teachers asked questions, students prepared responses both pro and con, and advanced students refuted those responses. It wasn't that the answers to the questions were in doubt; rather, this was a way for students to deepen their understanding of Christian tradition and relate it to their own experience.
Something like this ought to happen in contemporary preaching, argues Marilyn McCord Adams. Preachers should question and challenge the authority of the faith--not to undermine faith, but to deepen it and to help listeners address the questions that naturally arise from life's situations. As it was for Abraham and Job, this is a measure of the friendship between God and ourselves, for true friends will challenge and question each other (Expository Times, March).
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