Disruptive Grace: Reflections on God, Scripture, and the Church

by Walter Brueggemann

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 2011

Overview

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 never-before-published addresses and essays, drawing from all three parts of the Hebrew Bible—Torah, prophets, and writings—and addressing the role of the Hebrew canon in the life of the church.

Brueggemann turns his critical erudition to those practices—prophecy, lament, prayer, faithful imagination, and a holy economics—that alone may usher in a humane and peaceful future for our cities and our world, in defiance of the most ruthless aspects of capitalism, the arrogance of militarism, and the disciplines of the national security state.

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Key Features

• Provides essential Old Testament scholarship from one of the most prominent living scholars
• Contains clear and deep insight on theology, history, hermeneutics, ancient sociology, and Scripture
• Includes material perfect for pastors, professors, counselors, and Old Testament scholars

Contents

• Part I. Torah: Demand and Deliverance: Brueggemann on the Torah
  • Summons to a Dialogic Life
  • Exodus: Limit and Possibility
  • Sabbath as Antidote to Anxiety
  • The Countercommands of Sinai
• Part II. Prophets: Refusal and Redescription: Brueggemann on the Prophets
  • Every City a Holy City: The Holy City in Jeopardy
  • Every City a Holy City: The City of Possibility
  • Prophetic Ministry in the National Security State
  • The Land Mourns
• Part III. Writings: Skepticism and Doxology: Brueggemann on the Writings
  • A Necessary Condition of a Good, Loud Lament
  • The Fearful Thirst for Dialogue
  • Spirit-Led Imagination: Reality Practiced in a Sub-Version
  • Wisdom as “Practical Theology”
• Part IV. Canon and Imagination: Exodus and Resurrection: Brueggemann on the Canon
  • Hosting Alternative Worlds
  • Impossible Talk/Impossible Walk
  • Faithful Imagination as Sustained Subversion
  • Scriptural Strategies against Exclusionary Absolutism
  • A Life and a Time Other than Our Own

Praise for the Print Edition

Walter Brueggeman’s Disruptive Grace delivers a provocative and penetrating challenge to the powers and principalities of our contemporary world. This concentrate of ‘grace and truth’ not only exposes these forces of death but with master skill imagines a way out of the morass. One could only hope that the torrent from Brueggemann’s pen never ends . . . for the good of us all! And Carolyn J. Sharp’s exquisite comments and painstaking editorial work are a fitting tribute.

—Louis Stulman, professor of religious studies, University of Findlay

Product Details

• Title: Disruptive Grace: Reflections on God, Scripture, and the Church
• Author: Walter Brueggemann
• Editor: Carolyn J. Sharp
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress
• Publication Date: 2011
• Pages: 400

About the Author

Walter Brueggemann through his teaching, lecturing, and writing, has effectively demonstrated the significance of the Old Testament for our fractured world today. Recognized as the preeminent interpreter of the ancient texts in relation to questions posed by a variety of academic disciplines, he has shown the way toward a compelling understanding of the major components of the faith and life of ancient Israel, especially its Psalms, the prophets, and the narratives. His award-winning Theology of the Old Testament quickly became a foundational work in the field.

Brueggemann, who holds a ThD from Union Seminary, New York, and a PhD from St. Louis University, is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. He was previously professor of Old Testament at Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis. His many Fortress Press books, including The Threat of Life: Sermons on Pain, Power, and Weakness, exhibit a fecund combination of imaginative power, sound scholarship, and a passion of justice and redemption.

About the Editor

Carolyn J. Sharp is associate professor of Hebrew Scriptures at Yale Divinity School.

Product Details

• Title: Disruptive Grace: Reflections on God, Scripture, and the Church
• Author: Walter Brueggemann
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 2011
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. O.T. › Theology; Theology
• Resource ID: LLS:DISRUPVGRACE
• Resource Type: text.monograph.biblical-theology
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T18:26:09Z

About Walter Brueggemann

Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. He is past president of the Society of Biblical Literature and the author of numerous books, including David’s Truth: In Israel’s Imagination and Memory, Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching Genesis, and The Message of the Psalms: A Theological Commentary.