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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... Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Cover design: Kevin van der Leek Design Inc. Cover photo: © Trinette Reed/Photodisc/Getty Images. Used by permission. Interior design: Beth Wright, Trio Bookworks ...
... Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Cover design: Kevin van der Leek Design Inc. Cover photo: © Trinette Reed/Photodisc/Getty Images. Used by permission. Interior design: Beth Wright, Trio Bookworks ...
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... Church and a New Century: Part I: Homework against Scarcity 10. Vision for a New Church and a New Century: Part II: Holiness Becomes Generosity 11. Patriotism for Citizens of the Penultimate Superpower Abbreviations Notes Index of Names ...
... Church and a New Century: Part I: Homework against Scarcity 10. Vision for a New Church and a New Century: Part II: Holiness Becomes Generosity 11. Patriotism for Citizens of the Penultimate Superpower Abbreviations Notes Index of Names ...
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... church's contemporary existence. From careful attention to Israel's story of exile, the church may—and he would underscore the “may” because he is not primarily an optimist—dis- cover where it is and why, what its future holds, and what ...
... church's contemporary existence. From careful attention to Israel's story of exile, the church may—and he would underscore the “may” because he is not primarily an optimist—dis- cover where it is and why, what its future holds, and what ...
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... church has to live between peculiarity and plural- ism , between shaping ourselves as a different people - different not in our humanness but in our obedience — and living in relation to the other who is our immediate neighbor and also ...
... church has to live between peculiarity and plural- ism , between shaping ourselves as a different people - different not in our humanness but in our obedience — and living in relation to the other who is our immediate neighbor and also ...
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... church in our society—the status of gays and lesbians, the mystery of creation and the workings of evolution, the intractable problem of our economy and the derivative issue of poverty, the cultural wars, and the engagement with other ...
... church in our society—the status of gays and lesbians, the mystery of creation and the workings of evolution, the intractable problem of our economy and the derivative issue of poverty, the cultural wars, and the engagement with other ...
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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