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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... issues in social indifference and anti-neighborliness?” (151). The only way out of such a living death is via an ethic of resistance. Possible answers to his question, however, are not confined to its immediate context . They are ...
... issues in social indifference and anti-neighborliness?” (151). The only way out of such a living death is via an ethic of resistance. Possible answers to his question, however, are not confined to its immediate context . They are ...
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... issues seems implausible at best. That there should be a “third way” beyond “red” and “blue” on any of these issues is completely unlikely. Of course it is “unlikely” for “flesh and blood”; that, however, is the wondrous, subversive ...
... issues seems implausible at best. That there should be a “third way” beyond “red” and “blue” on any of these issues is completely unlikely. Of course it is “unlikely” for “flesh and blood”; that, however, is the wondrous, subversive ...
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... issues that concern us all . Most particularly I am glad to dedicate this collection to Lee Carroll and Erskine Clarke , who are among my most generous colleagues and my most steadfast friends . Chapter 5 : " The City in Biblical ...
... issues that concern us all . Most particularly I am glad to dedicate this collection to Lee Carroll and Erskine Clarke , who are among my most generous colleagues and my most steadfast friends . Chapter 5 : " The City in Biblical ...
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... issues of density hover, to the places where we redecide about trusting, doubting, giving, and resisting. 6. the loss of the “moneys of certitude”—the ones we gladly pay to be reassured that the troubles are all in fact contained ...
... issues of density hover, to the places where we redecide about trusting, doubting, giving, and resisting. 6. the loss of the “moneys of certitude”—the ones we gladly pay to be reassured that the troubles are all in fact contained ...
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... issues of idolatry, whether the world in some way and to some extent is governed by powers that are not generous. • Consummation bespeaks fidelity, but the text is haunted by a defin- ing sense of absence in which the allegedly faithful ...
... issues of idolatry, whether the world in some way and to some extent is governed by powers that are not generous. • Consummation bespeaks fidelity, but the text is haunted by a defin- ing sense of absence in which the allegedly faithful ...
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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