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Disruptive grace : reflections on God, Scripture, and the church /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press, ©2011Description: 394 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780800697945
  • 0800697944
  • 9780334043997
  • 0334043999
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 230.041 B889D 22
LOC classification:
  • BX9886.Z8 B78 2011
Contents:
INTRODUCTION -- DISRUPTIVE GRACE: THE UNCOMPROMISING THEOLOGY ON WALTER BRUEGGEMANN / Carolyn L. Sharp -- PART I. TORAH -- DEMAND AND DELIVERANCE: BRUEGEMANN OF THE TORAH / Carolyn L. Sharp -- Summons to a Dialogic Life -- Exodus : Limit and Possibility -- Sabbath as Antidote to Anxiety -- Countercommands of Sinai --
Summary: 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
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Two out of 17 essays were were addresses delivered previously between 2002 and 2009

"Bibliography of Walter Brueggemann's works cited": pages 381-382

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-378) and indexes

INTRODUCTION -- DISRUPTIVE GRACE: THE UNCOMPROMISING THEOLOGY ON WALTER BRUEGGEMANN / Carolyn L. Sharp -- PART I. TORAH -- DEMAND AND DELIVERANCE: BRUEGEMANN OF THE TORAH / Carolyn L. Sharp -- Summons to a Dialogic Life -- Exodus : Limit and Possibility -- Sabbath as Antidote to Anxiety -- Countercommands of Sinai --

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

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