Disruptive grace
Subtitle: reflections on God, Scripture, and the church
By: Walter Brueggemann ; edited and Introduced by Carolyn J. Sharp
Contributors: Sharp, Carolyn J.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780800697945
Subjects: Bible; Theology
Description: Walter Brueggemann has been one of the leading voices in Hebrew Bible interpretation for decades; his landmark works in Old Testament theology have inspired and informed a generation of students, scholars, and preachers. These chapters gather his recent addresses and essays on every part of the Hebrew Bible, many of them never published before, bringing his erudition to bear on those practices-prophecy, lament, prayer, faithful imagination, and a holy economics-that alone may usher in a humane and peaceful future for our cities.
Table of contents: title: The counter commands of Sinai; title: Exodus: limit and possibility; title: Sabbath as antidote to anxiety; title: Summons to a dialogic life; title: Every city a holy city I: the holy city in jeopardy; title: Every city a holy city II: the city of possibility; title: A welcome for the others; title: Prophetic ministry in the national security state; title: Full of truth and hope; title: The land mourns; title: A necessary condition for a good loud lament; title: On knowing, on not knowing, on being known; title: The fearful thirst for dialogue; title: Spirit-led imagination; title: Wisdom as practical theology; title: Holiness as ground for knowing mercy; title: Hosting alternative worlds; title: Impossible talk, impossible walk; title: Faithful imagination as sustained subversion; title: Scriptural strategies against exclusionary absolutism; title: A life and a time other than our own.