To script a people’s performance of shalom
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To script a people’s performance of shalom
Neither rule book for gatekeeping nor field guide for an imagined apocalypse, the Bible scripts a community’s enactment of a strange, improbable story of divine-human encounter. The undoing of violence and the givenness of peaceableness are its plot points as well as its telos. The liturgy provides the Bible’s context and coherence, as bread and wine make alive in those gathered the Word who interprets the word for all.
