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Old Words for a New World

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Walter Brueggemann has been so effective for so long precisely because he has consistently called upon the church to see beyond the taken-for-granted realities it confronts by imagining God's alternative reality; to recognize that the bars of its entrapment were social constructs and could just as easily be deconstructed so we could be once again enchanted by God's good news. To challenge the taken-for-granted reality of the church and to imagine an alternative reality, Brueggemann consistently takes us back to the biblical text. He moves between a description of the reality that appears in front of the church and the alternative that God is preparing for God's people that begins now and moves into God's eschatological future. In so doing Brueggemann seeks to unleash the power of God's words to create a new world--here and now.
Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is regarded as the premier Old Testament interpreter and biblical theologian of today. Among his many publications are Prophetic Imagination and Old Testament Theology. Conrad L. Kanagy is professor of sociology at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania. He has an undergraduate degree from Wheaton College and a PhD from Penn State. He is the author of eight books and numerous scholarly articles. His primary area of expertise is American and global Christianity.
Part I New Community 1. Music-Making Counter-Community 2. History is Clay 3. The Dangerous Arson of a Bramble Part II New Governance 4. Beyond the Governor's Illusion* 5. Essential Components of a Government? 6. Rescinding Absolutes 7. The Strange Work of Sons-in-Law Part III New Worship 8. Intimacy Beyond Scholasticism 9. The God of the Other 10. The Empowering, Illuminating Word from Elsewhere Part IV New Economy 11. Let's Do the Numbers 12. Money Talk in the Church 13. The Unending Work of Contradiction Part V New Earth 14. Tractor--Icon of Predatory Development 15. Trees: Signals of Hope and Defiance 16. Mapping Part VI New Heaven 17. When Water does not Win 18. The End of Imagination? 19. Written Up, Written Down 20. Originalism 21. Unshakeable Systems
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