The Word That Redescribes the World: The Bible and DiscipleshipIn the last several years, Walter Brueggemann's writings have directly addressed the situation of Christian communities in today's globalized context, with its consumerist lifestyles, vast inequalities, and near-imperial exercises of power. His insights, forged in rugged encounters with the texts of the Old Testament, are sharp, painful, and indispensable. In the people Israel Brueggemann finds a model of an alternative community - anchored in YHWH, ever exploring new possibilities, and prophetically bent against empire. Part I: The Word Redescribing the World Part II: The Word Redefining the Possible Part III: The Word Shaping a Community of Discipleship |
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... Exodus concerns a departure from old loyalties toward new commitments ; the Easter memory concerns a gift of new life wrought out of death . This memory of departure and new life resurfaces for people gathered around the gospel . We are ...
... Exodus concerns a departure from old loyalties toward new commitments ; the Easter memory concerns a gift of new life wrought out of death . This memory of departure and new life resurfaces for people gathered around the gospel . We are ...
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... exodus- wilderness-land. The liturgical recital holds to the story line that smacks of particularity and, at the same time, readily becomes a typology of depar- ture and arrival, of relinquishment and reception that can be reread in ...
... exodus- wilderness-land. The liturgical recital holds to the story line that smacks of particularity and, at the same time, readily becomes a typology of depar- ture and arrival, of relinquishment and reception that can be reread in ...
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... exodus (vv. 10-15), the wilderness (v. 16), and the land (vv. 17-22), there is an opening element on creation (vv. 4-9). Thus, the particu- larities of Israel's memory are embedded in a larger, deeper recall of cre- ation. But, of ...
... exodus (vv. 10-15), the wilderness (v. 16), and the land (vv. 17-22), there is an opening element on creation (vv. 4-9). Thus, the particu- larities of Israel's memory are embedded in a larger, deeper recall of cre- ation. But, of ...
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... ( Exod . 2 : 11-12 ) . For his moment of rage he had to flee as a fugitive , a persona non grata in the empire ( Exod . 2 : 13-15 ) . In his status as a fugitive , he is addressed by this Voice from the burning bush who summons ...
... ( Exod . 2 : 11-12 ) . For his moment of rage he had to flee as a fugitive , a persona non grata in the empire ( Exod . 2 : 13-15 ) . In his status as a fugitive , he is addressed by this Voice from the burning bush who summons ...
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... Exodus narrative, Moses has many occasions for truth-telling, truth that is finally put in this way in Exodus 11:4-7 ... (Exod. 12:31-32) That is the truth! The truth is that YHWH, not Pharaoh, is sovereign. YHWH is glorified and the ...
... Exodus narrative, Moses has many occasions for truth-telling, truth that is finally put in this way in Exodus 11:4-7 ... (Exod. 12:31-32) That is the truth! The truth is that YHWH, not Pharaoh, is sovereign. YHWH is glorified and the ...
Contents
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A Fresh Performance amid a Failed Script | 45 |
Faith at the Nullpunkt | 59 |
Failed and Possible | 75 |
Consumer or Citizen | 114 |
Ecumenism as the Shared Practice of a Peculiar Identity | 138 |
Patriotism for Citizens of the Penultimate Superpower | 198 |
Abbreviations | 212 |
Index of Names | 229 |
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