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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... Old Testament. Brueggemann is less interested in that literary his- tory and more interested in whether the experience erupting in the text of Scripture can break through our academic arguments to mirror the present even as it tells the ...
... Old Testament. Brueggemann is less interested in that literary his- tory and more interested in whether the experience erupting in the text of Scripture can break through our academic arguments to mirror the present even as it tells the ...
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... Old Testament is a scripture shared by Jews . That is obviously reflected in the virtual abandonment of the term " Old Testament " in favor of the " Hebrew Scriptures . " Pros and cons for such a move do not need to be debated in this ...
... Old Testament is a scripture shared by Jews . That is obviously reflected in the virtual abandonment of the term " Old Testament " in favor of the " Hebrew Scriptures . " Pros and cons for such a move do not need to be debated in this ...
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... Old Testament or a New Testament , but the whole , which is always more than a sequence or a sum of the two . It is , as such , a particular and peculiar reality of its own , a whole new thing . In this daring way , Brueggemann breaks ...
... Old Testament or a New Testament , but the whole , which is always more than a sequence or a sum of the two . It is , as such , a particular and peculiar reality of its own , a whole new thing . In this daring way , Brueggemann breaks ...
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... Old Testament, as we make the close, huge leap from Malachi to Matthew. For just at the last moment, this is the last utterance of hope of the Old Testament: “Lo, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of ...
... Old Testament, as we make the close, huge leap from Malachi to Matthew. For just at the last moment, this is the last utterance of hope of the Old Testament: “Lo, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of ...
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... Old Testament studies, namely, that the texts of confron- tation between truth and power (prophet and king) in the Old Testament have now been belatedly refracted through scribal interpretive intentional- ity. Consequently, what the ...
... Old Testament studies, namely, that the texts of confron- tation between truth and power (prophet and king) in the Old Testament have now been belatedly refracted through scribal interpretive intentional- ity. Consequently, what 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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