In Texts Under Negotiation, Walter Brueggemann issues a passionate call for a bold restructuring of the imagination of faith in our 'postmodern' context. He contends that we need not construct a full alternative world, but rather to fund - to provide the pieces, materials, and resources out of which a new world can be imagined. The place of liturgy and proclamation is 'a place where people come to receive new materials, or old materials freshly voiced, which will fund, feed, nurture, nourish, legitimate, and authorize a counterimagination of the world.
