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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Page xiv
... gift of God. And even while we gladly recite the old inventory of God's miracles, such new pos- sibility about these issues seems implausible at best. That there should be a “third way” beyond “red” and “blue” on any of these issues is ...
... gift of God. And even while we gladly recite the old inventory of God's miracles, such new pos- sibility about these issues seems implausible at best. That there should be a “third way” beyond “red” and “blue” on any of these issues is ...
Page xv
... gift of new life wrought out of death . This memory of departure and new life resurfaces for people gathered around the gospel . We are indeed summoned to a new obedience that is articu- lated through new freedom and new life . The ...
... gift of new life wrought out of death . This memory of departure and new life resurfaces for people gathered around the gospel . We are indeed summoned to a new obedience that is articu- lated through new freedom and new life . The ...
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... gift from God and was received as such by its formulators . Do I go on too long with this? Do I. That text has become an unquestioned , normative narrative that has permeated Western consciousness , for believer and nonbeliever alike ...
... gift from God and was received as such by its formulators . Do I go on too long with this? Do I. That text has become an unquestioned , normative narrative that has permeated Western consciousness , for believer and nonbeliever alike ...
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... gifts , wonders , and obedience , but also so remote that it sounds like a language we do not know and do not intend to learn . We are long aware of tales from the " mission fields " in Africa where it was so difficult to do mission ...
... gifts , wonders , and obedience , but also so remote that it sounds like a language we do not know and do not intend to learn . We are long aware of tales from the " mission fields " in Africa where it was so difficult to do mission ...
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... gift. The past is a collage of gifts. Third, the gifts are jarring and dynamic, marked by a disruption and discontinuity that radically resituate Israel. The memories are not of ongoing conditions but of emerging new condi- tions willed ...
... gift. The past is a collage of gifts. Third, the gifts are jarring and dynamic, marked by a disruption and discontinuity that radically resituate Israel. The memories are not of ongoing conditions but of emerging new condi- tions willed ...
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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