Alternative to the Bread of Affliction: And Other Essays
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Table of Contents
1 Alternative to the Bread of Affliction
2 Preaching the Psalms
3 On Tenacious Parenting
4 The Litigation of Scarcity
5 Twin Themes for Ecumenical Singing: The Psalms
6 In the "Thou" Business: The Travail of Biblical Language . . . Again
7 Reaping the Whirlwind
8 The Poem: Subversion and Summons
9 The Impossible Possibility of Forgiveness
10 On Appearing before the Authorities
11 Getting Your Sibilants Right: The Evangelical Shibboleth
12 Do the Numbers
13 Awaiting the Verdict
14 At the Death of Peter Knauert: Peter amid Remembering and Hoping
15 Advantage McEnroe
16 What Does It Mean to Be Human?
17 When the Music Starts Again
18 The First Great Commandment
19 A Little Evangelical Geography
20 Toward Perfect Health
21 Peace: The Fruit of the Spirit
22 Three Key Moves toward White Extremism
23 A Retrospect
“In Alternative to the Bread of Affliction, readers will find nourishment for the work of preaching in eye-opening interpretations of biblical texts. They will engage with commentary on ancient passages that illuminate contemporary sufferings. They will experience biblical stories and poems that call us from death into radiant life. All this from Walter Brueggemann, poet, preacher, and biblical interpreter of unmatchable power.”
—Kathleen M. O’Connor, professor emerita of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary
“For many years, Walter Brueggemann has been an exegete-poet-prophet-preacher extraordinaire. This book of sermons confirms again the revelation of his homiletical gifts for the life of the church. In his distinct bold style and voice, he reminds every reader that the gospel is still good news! His words will not feed readers the bread of affliction but rather break open the eternal bread of life.”
—Luke A. Powery, dean, Duke University Chapel
- Title: Alternative to the Bread of Affliction: And Other Essays
- Authors: Walter Brueggemann, Theodore Wardlaw
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666791976, 9781666735161, 1666735167, 9781666791969, 1666791962, 1666791970
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666791976
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-01T13:50:38Z
Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. He has published widely on the Old Testament as well as contemporary hermeneutical reflections, including, from Cascade Books: David and His Theologian (2011), A Pathway of Interpretation (2008), Embracing the Transformation (2014), The Practice of Homefulness (2014), Truth-Telling as Subversive Obedience (2011), Virus as a Summons to Faith (2020), A Wilderness Zone (2021), and Resisting Denial, Refusing Despair (2022).