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TL;DR: The Legitimacy of a Sectarian Hermeneutic as mentioned in this paper explores Israel's life of prayer, worship, and ethical reflection as ''a conversation behind the wall'' and argues that this unexplained, unargued conversation is essential to Israel's faithful life in the world.
Abstract: In \"The Legitimacy of a Sectarian Hermeneutic,\" I have explored Israel's life of prayer, worship, and ethical reflection as \"a conversation behind the wall.\"1 In that conversation, Israel, without explanation or apology to anyone else, engages in conversation about its own fundamental loyalty to Yahweh and its derivative, distinctive identity in the world. I have argued that this unexplained, unargued conversation is essential to Israel's faithful life in the world. Israel could not exist without such a distinctive conversation.2 Moreover, I . have suggested that in our Euro-American context of moribund Christiandom, such a \"conversation behind the wall\" is now crucial for the church, in order to recover and reconfess the church's foundational loyalty and distinctive identity in the world. I used the term \"sectarian\" for that conversation. I intended to
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