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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... perhaps too conge- nial or , alternatively , too angry and coercive , depending on the preacher's " experience . " Any large vision of saving transcendence , moreover , devolves into the family or tribe , either in blasé comfort or in ...
... perhaps too conge- nial or , alternatively , too angry and coercive , depending on the preacher's " experience . " Any large vision of saving transcendence , moreover , devolves into the family or tribe , either in blasé comfort or in ...
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... perhaps a gift from God and was received as such by its formulators . Do I go on too long with this? Do I. That text has become an unquestioned , normative narrative that has permeated Western consciousness , for believer and nonbeliever ...
... perhaps a gift from God and was received as such by its formulators . Do I go on too long with this? Do I. That text has become an unquestioned , normative narrative that has permeated Western consciousness , for believer and nonbeliever ...
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... perhaps to echo too much the so- called Biblical Theology Movement . Nonetheless , such a suggestion seems inescapable . I take recourse to Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig to speak of creation - covenant - consummation as an ordered ...
... perhaps to echo too much the so- called Biblical Theology Movement . Nonetheless , such a suggestion seems inescapable . I take recourse to Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig to speak of creation - covenant - consummation as an ordered ...
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... perhaps Marlene Dietrich who eloquently concluded, “When you're dead, you're dead.” Since death is so final, so daily, so immediate, and so palpable, it leaves adherents to this dominant text in despair, either the despair of glad ...
... perhaps Marlene Dietrich who eloquently concluded, “When you're dead, you're dead.” Since death is so final, so daily, so immediate, and so palpable, it leaves adherents to this dominant text in despair, either the despair of glad ...
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... perhaps in our time it is transna- tional corporate wealth and its totalizing ideology—entrenched, with our collusion, in exploitative ruthlessness. The poet looks beyond such nega- tion, precisely because YHWH's fidelity toward YHWH's ...
... perhaps in our time it is transna- tional corporate wealth and its totalizing ideology—entrenched, with our collusion, in exploitative ruthlessness. The poet looks beyond such nega- tion, precisely because YHWH's fidelity toward YHWH's ...
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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