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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... exile is the focus of attention. It is pre- cisely there that the community comes to know both judgment and hope. Brueggemann thinks that exile is not simply a moment in the history of ancient Israel. It is a metaphor for the church's ...
... exile is the focus of attention. It is pre- cisely there that the community comes to know both judgment and hope. Brueggemann thinks that exile is not simply a moment in the history of ancient Israel. It is a metaphor for the church's ...
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... exile! In exile—the defining moment of despair for Israel when YHWH was silent, remote, and uncaring, in a context where the “No” of reality might have had the last word—the promises from the ancestors surge; it is amid the wretchedness ...
... exile! In exile—the defining moment of despair for Israel when YHWH was silent, remote, and uncaring, in a context where the “No” of reality might have had the last word—the promises from the ancestors surge; it is amid the wretchedness ...
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... exiles, to the cosmos, against death—is in the Christian Bible at the pivot point of the 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 ...
... exiles, to the cosmos, against death—is in the Christian Bible at the pivot point of the 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 ...
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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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