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 ix
... humanity. Surely no contemporary interpreter better exemplifies Luther's image of the Bible as the Word of God in a very human, crude manger. Both the danger and the power of the word of Scripture are lifted up in his writing. So also ...
... humanity. Surely no contemporary interpreter better exemplifies Luther's image of the Bible as the Word of God in a very human, crude manger. Both the danger and the power of the word of Scripture are lifted up in his writing. So also ...
Page xii
... human existence and covenantal fidelity is what originally and finally Brueggemann seeks to illumine . To use one's imagination a bit , it is as if he is John the Baptist in Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim altarpiece , pointing that ...
... human existence and covenantal fidelity is what originally and finally Brueggemann seeks to illumine . To use one's imagination a bit , it is as if he is John the Baptist in Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim altarpiece , pointing that ...
Page xiv
... human explanation. They claim the continuing attention of Jews and Christians and leave us open for “abiding astonishment” (Martin Buber), a dazzled sense that the world is some- thing other than we had understood it to be. The ...
... human explanation. They claim the continuing attention of Jews and Christians and leave us open for “abiding astonishment” (Martin Buber), a dazzled sense that the world is some- thing other than we had understood it to be. The ...
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... human quality is reduced to sexual emanations . in professional sports , where physical strength is traded for bigger salaries , and macho images show powerful people who are unbri- dled by normal social restraints and expectations . in ...
... human quality is reduced to sexual emanations . in professional sports , where physical strength is traded for bigger salaries , and macho images show powerful people who are unbri- dled by normal social restraints and expectations . in ...
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... human ambiguities so palpable among us. The power of this text also shows up in overstated theological liberalism in which every woman and every man is one's own pope, in which autono- mous freedom becomes a fetish and all notions of ...
... human ambiguities so palpable among us. The power of this text also shows up in overstated theological liberalism in which every woman and every man is one's own pope, in which autono- mous freedom becomes a fetish and all notions of ...
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