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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... and anti-neighborliness?” (151). The only way out of such a living death is via an ethic of resistance. Possible answers to his question, however, are not confined to its immediate context . They are present x. D. Editor's Foreword.
... and anti-neighborliness?” (151). The only way out of such a living death is via an ethic of resistance. Possible answers to his question, however, are not confined to its immediate context . They are present x. D. Editor's Foreword.
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... questions and invitations. Consequently, there is a somewhat random quality to the collection and, inescapably, some repetition. Nonetheless there is a coherence to these chapters and a rough unity that is evident in the threefold ...
... questions and invitations. Consequently, there is a somewhat random quality to the collection and, inescapably, some repetition. Nonetheless there is a coherence to these chapters and a rough unity that is evident in the threefold ...
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... questions but cuts underneath to where the hidden issues of density hover, to the places where we redecide about trusting, doubting, giving, and resisting. 6. the loss of the “moneys of certitude”—the ones we gladly pay to be reassured ...
... questions but cuts underneath to where the hidden issues of density hover, to the places where we redecide about trusting, doubting, giving, and resisting. 6. the loss of the “moneys of certitude”—the ones we gladly pay to be reassured ...
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... questions the dominant text of our culture , a plot that tells radically against the plot of modern consumerism . I understand and acknowledge the risks in such a large plot because the text is enormously variegated in its detail and ...
... questions the dominant text of our culture , a plot that tells radically against the plot of modern consumerism . I understand and acknowledge the risks in such a large plot because the text is enormously variegated in its detail and ...
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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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