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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Page xi
... Lord and marked the community off from others without turning its back on " the other . " As Brueggemann notes in these essays , like the people of God from the beginning , the church has to live between peculiarity and plural- ism ...
... Lord and marked the community off from others without turning its back on " the other . " As Brueggemann notes in these essays , like the people of God from the beginning , the church has to live between peculiarity and plural- ism ...
Page xii
... Lord of Israel . The reality of God , the mystery , the presence , the claims , the power of God , all of that and what it means for human existence and covenantal fidelity is what originally and finally Brueggemann seeks to illumine ...
... Lord of Israel . The reality of God , the mystery , the presence , the claims , the power of God , all of that and what it means for human existence and covenantal fidelity is what originally and finally Brueggemann seeks to illumine ...
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... Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth. (Isa. 25:7-8) Israel's buoyancy is in the conviction, not that we shall never die, not that we shall meet our loved ...
... Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth. (Isa. 25:7-8) Israel's buoyancy is in the conviction, not that we shall never die, not that we shall meet our loved ...
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... Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of parents to their children and the hearts of children to their parents, so that I will not come and strike the land with a curse” (Mal. 4:5-6). This assurance is picked up directly in Luke's ...
... Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of parents to their children and the hearts of children to their parents, so that I will not come and strike the land with a curse” (Mal. 4:5-6). This assurance is picked up directly in Luke's ...
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... Lord and its text , busy supervis- ing a morality of scarcity , trying to keep the old world of anxiety in place . The text , of course , is otherwise . The giving of God that populates our past and the reliability of God that marks our ...
... Lord and its text , busy supervis- ing a morality of scarcity , trying to keep the old world of anxiety in place . The text , of course , is otherwise . The giving of God that populates our past and the reliability of God that marks our ...
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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Abiathar Abraham acquisitiveness Ahab alien alternative ancient Israel anxiety assertion Assyria Babylon biblical blessed cadences characteristically Christian church education claim Claus Westermann command concerns concrete consumerism covenant covenantal coveting creation creation theology Creator creatureliness David deep Deut Deuteronomy disciples discipleship disciplines doxology earth economic Egypt enacted engagement ethic evangelism exile Exod Exodus faith fidelity Fortress Press generosity Gerhard von Rad gift God’s Gospel heaven holiness hope human imagination imperial interpretation Isaiah Israelite Jeremiah Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews Judaism king land liturgical live mandate mission moreover Moses Naboth narrative Nathan Nebuchadnezzar neighbor neighborliness nullpunkt obedience Old Testament one’s peculiar Persia Pharaoh political possible practice preacher prophetic Psalms reality resistance rhetoric rooted sabbath satiated says the Lord scribes Scripture Sinai slaves social speak summons Theology third verb tion Torah tradition truth turn utterance vision voice Walter Brueggemann YHWH YHWH’s