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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... follows: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Brueggemann, Walter. The Word that redescribes the world : the Bible and discipleship / Walter Brueggemann ; edited by Patrick D. Miller. p. cm. Includes bibliographical ...
... follows: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Brueggemann, Walter. The Word that redescribes the world : the Bible and discipleship / Walter Brueggemann ; edited by Patrick D. Miller. p. cm. Includes bibliographical ...
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... follows, my comments are not aimed at a summary of the essays. Rather I would point the reader to some of the themes and notes that are sounded throughout all of them. Each one is discrete in its focus and emphasis, but they also ...
... follows, my comments are not aimed at a summary of the essays. Rather I would point the reader to some of the themes and notes that are sounded throughout all of them. Each one is discrete in its focus and emphasis, but they also ...
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... follow . The subject matter may be the Scrip- tures , but only as they point to the true subject , the Lord of Israel . The reality of God , the mystery , the presence , the claims , the power of God , all of that and what it means for ...
... follow . The subject matter may be the Scrip- tures , but only as they point to the true subject , the Lord of Israel . The reality of God , the mystery , the presence , the claims , the power of God , all of that and what it means for ...
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... follows, I consider three aspects of the large claim as it functions as countertext, as text counter to the dominant text. Memory. against. Dominant. Amnesia. The recovery of the text is in order to mediate a memory of generosity in the ...
... follows, I consider three aspects of the large claim as it functions as countertext, as text counter to the dominant text. Memory. against. Dominant. Amnesia. The recovery of the text is in order to mediate a memory of generosity in the ...
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... the thickness we require to be human . That thickness must come from preachers who love and live in this odd text . Proclamatory Confrontations In the discussion that follows, consideration will be A Text That Redescribes 19.
... the thickness we require to be human . That thickness must come from preachers who love and live in this odd text . Proclamatory Confrontations In the discussion that follows, consideration will be A Text That Redescribes 19.
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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Abiathar Abraham acquisitiveness Ahab alien alternative ancient Israel anxiety assertion Assyria Babylon biblical blessed cadences characteristically Christian church education claim Claus Westermann command concerns concrete consumerism covenant covenantal coveting creation creation theology Creator creatureliness David deep Deut Deuteronomy disciples discipleship disciplines doxology earth economic Egypt enacted engagement ethic evangelism exile Exod Exodus faith fidelity Fortress Press generosity Gerhard von Rad gift God’s Gospel heaven holiness hope human imagination imperial interpretation Isaiah Israelite Jeremiah Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews Judaism king land liturgical live mandate mission moreover Moses Naboth narrative Nathan Nebuchadnezzar neighbor neighborliness nullpunkt obedience Old Testament one’s peculiar Persia Pharaoh political possible practice preacher prophetic Psalms reality resistance rhetoric rooted sabbath satiated says the Lord scribes Scripture Sinai slaves social speak summons Theology third verb tion Torah tradition truth turn utterance vision voice Walter Brueggemann YHWH YHWH’s