Out of Babylon
By: Walter Brueggemann
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Nashville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781426710056
Description: Compares Western society with the society of ancient Babylon, arguing that we should move away from materialism and the pursuit of pleasure in order to have lives of meaning and substance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ).
Table of contents: title: The facts on the ground, twice!; title: Awaiting Babylon; title: The long, slow process of loss; title: The divine as the poetic; title: Contestation over empire; title: Departure from empire; title: A durable metaphor, now contemporary; title: Doin' time in Persia.