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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Contents
A Text That Redescribes | 3 |
Proclamatory Confrontations | 20 |
A Fresh Performance amid a Failed Script | 45 |
Faith at the Nullpunkt | 59 |
The City in Biblical Perspective Failed and Possible | 75 |
Evangelism and Discipleship The God Who Calls The God Who Sends | 92 |
Options for Creatureliness Consumer or Citizen | 114 |
Ecumenism as the Shared Practice of a Peculiar Identity | 138 |
Vision for a New Church and a New Century homework against Scarcity | 157 |
Vision for a New Church and a New Century Part II Holiness Becomes Generosity | 177 |
Patriotism for Citizens of the Penultimate Superpower w | 198 |
Abbreviations | 212 |
Notes | 213 |
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| Title | The Word that Redescribes the World: The Bible and Discipleship |
| Author | Walter Brueggemann |
| Editor | Patrick D. Miller |
| Publisher | Fortress Press, 2006 |
| ISBN | 080063814X, 9780800638146 |
| Length | 237 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Christian Theology / General |
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