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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... YHWH's wonders to which Israel endlessly attests. The so-called early credos of Deuteronomy 6:20-24 and 26:5-9 and ... YHWH, the subject of the verbs, as the characteristic and decisive agent. Israel has no 10 The Word That Redescribes ...
... YHWH's wonders to which Israel endlessly attests. The so-called early credos of Deuteronomy 6:20-24 and 26:5-9 and ... YHWH, the subject of the verbs, as the characteristic and decisive agent. Israel has no 10 The Word That Redescribes ...
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... YHWH's character. Memory is an engagement with fidelity from a God who takes endless initiatives in life ... YHWH's h.esed: Let them thank YHWH for his steadfast love, For his wonderful works to humankind. Again, memory is shaped like ...
... YHWH's character. Memory is an engagement with fidelity from a God who takes endless initiatives in life ... YHWH's h.esed: Let them thank YHWH for his steadfast love, For his wonderful works to humankind. Again, memory is shaped like ...
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... YHWH's own life in the world. As the dominant text of Western culture is a turn to the private subject, so doxological remembering is a turn away from a private subject to the grandeur of the faithful Holy One who dominates the true ...
... YHWH's own life in the world. As the dominant text of Western culture is a turn to the private subject, so doxological remembering is a turn away from a private subject to the grandeur of the faithful Holy One who dominates the true ...
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... YHWH was silent, remote, and uncaring, in a context where the “No” of reality might have had the last word—the promises ... YHWH's world is not curbed by empire, not defeated by exile, not limited by any closed circum- stance. Newness ...
... YHWH was silent, remote, and uncaring, in a context where the “No” of reality might have had the last word—the promises ... YHWH's world is not curbed by empire, not defeated by exile, not limited by any closed circum- stance. Newness ...
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Contents
20 | |
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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