‘Although Subversive Obedience addresses preachers, it also calls urgently to anyone who desires to hear and do God's word. With characteristic eloquence, Brueggemann dares us to believe in new life amidst the sexual, financial, and political lies that surround us. He finds hope in the truth coursing through Scripture and invites us to become courageous, obedient speakers of truth 'because our lives depend on it.’”-Kathleen M. O'Connor, Columbia Theological Seminary

'[Brueggemann] never fails to engage the biblical text without producing fresh insights and stunning ideas. The essays in this collection are no exception ... I am preparing to teach a divinity course ... [and] I'm making Brueggemann's book required reading.'

- William H. Willimon,

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. Those who serve as truth-tellers in the church, like those who listen to the truth-telling in the church, are a mix of yearning and fearfulness, of receptiveness and collusion. In the end, the work of truth-telling is not to offer a new package of certitudes that displaces old certitudes. This truth to be uttered and acted, rather, is the enactment and conveyance of this Person who is truth, so that truth comes as bodily fidelity that stays reliably present to the pain of the world.
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A new book by one of the world’s leading biblical scholars. This text is most useful for all students training for ministry, ordained and lay, who have to study biblical interpretation.
‘Although Subversive Obedience addresses preachers, it also calls urgently to anyone who desires to hear and do God's word. With characteristic eloquence, Brueggemann dares us to believe in new life amidst the sexual, financial, and political lies that surround us. He finds hope in the truth coursing through Scripture and invites us to become courageous, obedient speakers of truth 'because our lives depend on it.’”-Kathleen M. O'Connor, Columbia Theological Seminary
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780334044949
Publisert
2011-10-31
Utgiver
Vendor
SCM Press
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
135 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
128

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary.