num_pages: 156
description: Professor Brueggemann here examines the literature and experience of an era in which Israel's prophets faced the pastoral responsibility of helping people to enter into exile, to be in exile, and to depart out of exile. He addresses three major prophetic Jeremiah (the pathos of God), Ezekiel (the holiness of God), and 2 Isaiah (the newness of God). This literature is seen to contain the theological resources for handling both brokenness and surprise with freedom, courage, and imagination. Throughout, Brueggemann demonstrates how these resources offer vitality for ministry today.
language: English
title: Hopeful Imagination: Prophetic Voices in Exile
titlecomplete: Hopeful Imagination: Prophetic Voices in Exile
genres: Christianity, Social Justice, Theology, Religion, Faith, Old Testament, Christian, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 141
publisher: Fortress Press