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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... loss has come with historical criticism, to which we all, in one way or another, are committed. The project of histori- cal criticism began with an attempt to place and locate texts in context, in the belief that context illuminates ...
... loss has come with historical criticism, to which we all, in one way or another, are committed. The project of histori- cal criticism began with an attempt to place and locate texts in context, in the belief that context illuminates ...
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... loss . That is , the strangeness of the text itself illuminates the reasons we have scuttled it . With the inchoate recognition of loss , moreover , we hold many conferences on the recovery of the text . We may consider what would hap ...
... loss . That is , the strangeness of the text itself illuminates the reasons we have scuttled it . With the inchoate recognition of loss , moreover , we hold many conferences on the recovery of the text . We may consider what would hap ...
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... loss of the “moneys of certitude”—the ones we gladly pay to be reassured that the troubles are all in fact contained—because such moneys do not respond easily to textual proclamation that is polyvalent, open, and subversive. A wager can ...
... loss of the “moneys of certitude”—the ones we gladly pay to be reassured that the troubles are all in fact contained—because such moneys do not respond easily to textual proclamation that is polyvalent, open, and subversive. A wager can ...
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... loss. On one hand, the hope is cosmic, new heaven and new earth. That newness will be urban, a new Jerusalem. On the other hand, at the edge of Israel's text, the poetry imag- ines the defeat of the last force of despair: he will ...
... loss. On one hand, the hope is cosmic, new heaven and new earth. That newness will be urban, a new Jerusalem. On the other hand, at the edge of Israel's text, the poetry imag- ines the defeat of the last force of despair: he will ...
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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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