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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... moreover, if we con- sider the crisis points before the church in our society—the status of gays and lesbians, the mystery of creation and the workings of evolution, the intractable problem of our economy and the derivative issue of ...
... moreover, if we con- sider the crisis points before the church in our society—the status of gays and lesbians, the mystery of creation and the workings of evolution, the intractable problem of our economy and the derivative issue of ...
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... moreover , devolves into the family or tribe , either in blasé comfort or in militant crusading , either way with a very low ceiling . The failure of such thinness makes clear that we need a text that addresses us inscrutably , from ...
... moreover , devolves into the family or tribe , either in blasé comfort or in militant crusading , either way with a very low ceiling . The failure of such thinness makes clear that we need a text that addresses us inscrutably , from ...
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... moreover , we hold many conferences on the recovery of the text . We may consider what would hap- if we set about the recovery of the text in ways that pen Recovering the Text I suggest that recovery entails and produces. moved past ...
... moreover , we hold many conferences on the recovery of the text . We may consider what would hap- if we set about the recovery of the text in ways that pen Recovering the Text I suggest that recovery entails and produces. moved past ...
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... moreover , is marked by summons , expectation , and demand toward the neighbor , and we cannot outdistance that demand . We cannot push beyond , will , or imagine our life outside the demand of that Holy Neighbor who marks all our other ...
... moreover , is marked by summons , expectation , and demand toward the neighbor , and we cannot outdistance that demand . We cannot push beyond , will , or imagine our life outside the demand of that Holy Neighbor who marks all our other ...
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... moreover, is not always clean, unscarred, and without ambiguity. The recovery of the text is in the interest of both the large coherence of metanarrative and the candid engagement of the problem left by that metanarrative and by our ...
... moreover, is not always clean, unscarred, and without ambiguity. The recovery of the text is in the interest of both the large coherence of metanarrative and the candid engagement of the problem left by that metanarrative and by our ...
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