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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Page ix
... truth speaking to power.” He is not unaware of the ambiguity of both truth and power. Indeed, he underscores the problem- atic. Yet there is a sense in which all of the essays here embody that defini- tion of preaching as they place the ...
... truth speaking to power.” He is not unaware of the ambiguity of both truth and power. Indeed, he underscores the problem- atic. Yet there is a sense in which all of the essays here embody that defini- tion of preaching as they place the ...
Page xiii
... truth of God's hidden reality amid the ordered workings of the world. This collection of essays brings together papers that I have written and published in a variety of contexts, in response to a number of differ- ent questions and ...
... truth of God's hidden reality amid the ordered workings of the world. This collection of essays brings together papers that I have written and published in a variety of contexts, in response to a number of differ- ent questions and ...
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... truth this text gives little directly to such 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 ...
... truth this text gives little directly to such 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 ...
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... truth of our daily existence . Creation is the claim of the text that the life of the world is bounded by the self - giving generosity of God . As deep and as far back as we can go , we will find that generosity . We cannot push beyond ...
... truth of our daily existence . Creation is the claim of the text that the life of the world is bounded by the self - giving generosity of God . As deep and as far back as we can go , we will find that generosity . We cannot push beyond ...
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... truth and power. We may readily characterize preaching as truth speaking to power. Preaching is the difficult, daring act of enunciating a truth from outside conventionally assumed reality that accommodates none of the presup- positions ...
... truth and power. We may readily characterize preaching as truth speaking to power. Preaching is the difficult, daring act of enunciating a truth from outside conventionally assumed reality that accommodates none of the presup- positions ...
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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