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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... given these days to the sig- nificance of the exile and its aftermath as the time of composition of much of the Old Testament. Brueggemann is less interested in that literary his- tory and more interested in whether the experience ...
... given these days to the sig- nificance of the exile and its aftermath as the time of composition of much of the Old Testament. Brueggemann is less interested in that literary his- tory and more interested in whether the experience ...
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... given possibility. What counts in the end is not a bet- ter understanding or a new idea; what counts is a community of concrete engagement that takes up the gift of transformation and acts it out in the world . The essays in this ...
... given possibility. What counts in the end is not a bet- ter understanding or a new idea; what counts is a community of concrete engagement that takes up the gift of transformation and acts it out in the world . The essays in this ...
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... given , nonetheless , in the churches of the Ref- ormation . It is a given that requires , in our time , a fresh consideration . The Dominant Script A fresh reconsideration is a requirement ( 1 ) because of our awareness , fresh ...
... given , nonetheless , in the churches of the Ref- ormation . It is a given that requires , in our time , a fresh consideration . The Dominant Script A fresh reconsideration is a requirement ( 1 ) because of our awareness , fresh ...
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... developing military capacity of technique given over to violence , whether of Auschwitz or , currently , the U.S. imperial machine of war . moved past fascination with our own experience , moved past 4 THE WORD THAT REDESCRIBES THE WORLD.
... developing military capacity of technique given over to violence , whether of Auschwitz or , currently , the U.S. imperial machine of war . moved past fascination with our own experience , moved past 4 THE WORD THAT REDESCRIBES THE WORLD.
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... given as neighbors turn out, with some regular- ity, to be enemies. Creation-covenant-consummation yields a sweeping metanarrative to which the preacher bears witness. But Israel will not lie. It knows about this other triad of idolatry ...
... given as neighbors turn out, with some regular- ity, to be enemies. Creation-covenant-consummation yields a sweeping metanarrative to which the preacher bears witness. But Israel will not lie. It knows about this other triad of idolatry ...
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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