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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... Becomes Generosity 11. Patriotism for Citizens of the Penultimate Superpower Abbreviations Notes Index of Names Index of Biblical References ix xiii xvii 3 20 45 59 75 92 114 138 157 177 198 212 213 229 231 Editor's Foreword The ...
... Becomes Generosity 11. Patriotism for Citizens of the Penultimate Superpower Abbreviations Notes Index of Names Index of Biblical References ix xiii xvii 3 20 45 59 75 92 114 138 157 177 198 212 213 229 231 Editor's Foreword The ...
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... The End of the World and the Ends of God , ed . John Polkinghorne and Michael Welker ( Harrisburg , Pa .: Trinity Press International , 2000 ) . That text has become an unquestioned , normative narrative that xvii Acknowledgments.
... The End of the World and the Ends of God , ed . John Polkinghorne and Michael Welker ( Harrisburg , Pa .: Trinity Press International , 2000 ) . That text has become an unquestioned , normative narrative that xvii Acknowledgments.
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... Becomes Generosity , " Union Seminary Quarterly Review 54 : 1–2 ( 2000 ) : 45-64 . Chapter 11 : " Patriotism for Citizens of the Penultimate Superpower , " Dialogue 42 : 4 ( 2003 ) : 336-43 . I. The Word Redescribing the World A Text ...
... Becomes Generosity , " Union Seminary Quarterly Review 54 : 1–2 ( 2000 ) : 45-64 . Chapter 11 : " Patriotism for Citizens of the Penultimate Superpower , " Dialogue 42 : 4 ( 2003 ) : 336-43 . I. The Word Redescribing the World A Text ...
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... becomes obvious that when the church works from its experience — or , worse , from the experience of the preacher - things very quickly become thin , boring , predictable , and perhaps too conge- nial or , alternatively , too angry and ...
... becomes obvious that when the church works from its experience — or , worse , from the experience of the preacher - things very quickly become thin , boring , predictable , and perhaps too conge- nial or , alternatively , too angry and ...
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... become an unquestioned , normative narrative that has permeated Western consciousness , for believer and nonbeliever alike , with reasonableness and autonomous freedom . It is , however , a huge leap from the reasoned intentionality of ...
... become an unquestioned , normative narrative that has permeated Western consciousness , for believer and nonbeliever alike , with reasonableness and autonomous freedom . It is , however , a huge leap from the reasoned intentionality of ...
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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