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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... marks go into that identity seem to come from an ethos that is heavily counter to the present way of living in this world. So again and again, Brueggemann hears the text of Scripture pressuring against the way things are and proposing ...
... marks go into that identity seem to come from an ethos that is heavily counter to the present way of living in this world. So again and again, Brueggemann hears the text of Scripture pressuring against the way things are and proposing ...
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... , will , or imagine our life outside the demand of that Holy Neighbor who marks all our other neigh- bors by holiness . What a mouthful of daring assertion! A mouthful uttered over 8 THE WORD THAT REDESCRIBES the World.
... , will , or imagine our life outside the demand of that Holy Neighbor who marks all our other neigh- bors by holiness . What a mouthful of daring assertion! A mouthful uttered over 8 THE WORD THAT REDESCRIBES the World.
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... marks of abandonment that the poets arise to voice God's new gifts of homecoming. The lyrical poetry of Jeremiah can imagine a renewal of the covenant that is rooted in forgiveness. Ezekiel can anticipate a new temple with abiding glory ...
... marks of abandonment that the poets arise to voice God's new gifts of homecoming. The lyrical poetry of Jeremiah can imagine a renewal of the covenant that is rooted in forgiveness. Ezekiel can anticipate a new temple with abiding glory ...
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... (Mark 10:29-30) And so the text ends: The one who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen. (Rev. 22:20-21) And so we say regularly at the ...
... (Mark 10:29-30) And so the text ends: The one who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen. (Rev. 22:20-21) And so we say regularly at the ...
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... marks our future make life in the present different . It is our capacity to be amazed that equips us to enact the ... mark the failure of all these old texts and did not notice that the text of self - invention and self - sufficiency ...
... marks our future make life in the present different . It is our capacity to be amazed that equips us to enact the ... mark the failure of all these old texts and did not notice that the text of self - invention and self - sufficiency ...
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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