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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... land. The liturgical recital holds to the story line that smacks of particularity and, at the same time, readily becomes a typology of depar- ture and arrival, of relinquishment and reception that can be reread in many different ...
... land. The liturgical recital holds to the story line that smacks of particularity and, at the same time, readily becomes a typology of depar- ture and arrival, of relinquishment and reception that can be reread in many different ...
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... land of abundance. None of these acts could be expected or explained. Each is a wonder that lies beyond human achievement and can only be understood as gift. The past is a collage of gifts. Third, the gifts are jarring and dynamic ...
... land of abundance. None of these acts could be expected or explained. Each is a wonder that lies beyond human achievement and can only be understood as gift. The past is a collage of gifts. Third, the gifts are jarring and dynamic ...
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... land and oil and water, no more gifts. Everything is limited and scarce, to be guarded and kept, to be confiscated and seized. It is so in the public domain of economics, not less so in the intimate world of human transac- tions and ...
... land and oil and water, no more gifts. Everything is limited and scarce, to be guarded and kept, to be confiscated and seized. It is so in the public domain of economics, not less so in the intimate world of human transac- tions and ...
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... land, a land of milk, honey, houses, vineyards, olive trees, and water; and it will be given. Faith—“reconed as faith”—is to trust present-tense life to future gifts not yet in hand. The promise to the ancestors is a shadowy promise in ...
... land, a land of milk, honey, houses, vineyards, olive trees, and water; and it will be given. Faith—“reconed as faith”—is to trust present-tense life to future gifts not yet in hand. The promise to the ancestors is a shadowy promise in ...
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... land with a curse” (Mal. 4:5-6). This assurance is picked up directly in Luke's anticipation concerning John, who will precede Jesus: “With the spirit and power of Elijah he will go before him, to turn the hearts of parents to their ...
... land with a curse” (Mal. 4:5-6). This assurance is picked up directly in Luke's anticipation concerning John, who will precede Jesus: “With the spirit and power of Elijah he will go before him, to turn the hearts of parents to their ...
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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