The covenanted self
Subtitle: explorations in law and covenant
By: Walter Brueggemann ; edited by Patrick D. Miller.
Contributors: Miller, Patrick D.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Bible. O.T. -- Theology.
Description: These exciting studies on the first five books of the Bible cover a wide range of topics, challenging the reader to confront the issues of faithfulness, responsibility, and justice in an ever-changing world. Brueggemann sets the issues of praise and lament, grace and duty, truth and power in new frames of reference that call for a response. He demonstrates that the Christian reader of the Bible cannot blithely pass over the Pentateuch as simply pre-Christian and without relevance. His creative use of metaphor and imagination invite the reader to encounter freshly in these biblical texts God's call and the work of justice.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-140) and indexes.