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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... Kings 8:9, we have looked into the ark and discovered it was empty, except for the tablets of Torah. We have become critically knowing and busy with explanation. Our loss has come with historical criticism, to which we all, in one way ...
... Kings 8:9, we have looked into the ark and discovered it was empty, except for the tablets of Torah. We have become critically knowing and busy with explanation. Our loss has come with historical criticism, to which we all, in one way ...
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... king) in the Old Testament have now been belatedly refracted through scribal interpretive intentional- ity. Consequently, what the preacher and the church now have in the Bible is not a report on an encounter (an easy assumption of ...
... king) in the Old Testament have now been belatedly refracted through scribal interpretive intentional- ity. Consequently, what the preacher and the church now have in the Bible is not a report on an encounter (an easy assumption of ...
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... king of Egypt was not accustomed to hearing imperatives spoken to him , for the truth of the imperative is that Pharaoh is penultimate and account- able to YHWH . The truth, moreover, is that the authorization of a festival Proclamatory ...
... king of Egypt was not accustomed to hearing imperatives spoken to him , for the truth of the imperative is that Pharaoh is penultimate and account- able to YHWH . The truth, moreover, is that the authorization of a festival Proclamatory ...
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... king and Messiah. The story of his rise to power given us in the Books of Samuel is an amazing saga. The women adored him (1 Sam. 18:7); the men trusted and admired him—a man's man, a soldier, a chief, I an intimidator ( 2 Sam . 23 : 13 ...
... king and Messiah. The story of his rise to power given us in the Books of Samuel is an amazing saga. The women adored him (1 Sam. 18:7); the men trusted and admired him—a man's man, a soldier, a chief, I an intimidator ( 2 Sam . 23 : 13 ...
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... king who is above the Torah , who has no restraints , who will have what he wants , who bends the whole world to his whim . That's power ! Enter truth ! Enter Nathan , the prophet on the payroll of the king who , back in chapter 7 , had ...
... king who is above the Torah , who has no restraints , who will have what he wants , who bends the whole world to his whim . That's power ! Enter truth ! Enter Nathan , the prophet on the payroll of the king who , back in chapter 7 , had ...
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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