Truth-Telling as Subversive Obedience
Overview
Urging loyalty to the personal truth embodied in Christ over any other institution, Walter Brueggemann critiques our subtle submission to cultural paradigms and encourages truth telling. Brueggemann shows how undivided fidelity to Christ is the only way to remain aware of the world’s pain and how the gospel works in all times and places.
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Key Features
- Challenges traditional conventions
- Encourages undivided loyalty to Jesus
- Critiques cultural paradigms
Contents
- Duty as Delight and Desire
- I Will Do It. . . But You Go
- Mission as Hope In Action
- The Proclamation of Resurrection in the Old Testament
- The Commandments and Liberated, Liberating Bonding
- Truth-Telling as Subversive Obedience
- Truth-Telling Comfort
- “Until”. . . Endlessly Enacted, Now Urgent
Top Highlights
“Thus ‘obedience’ is a concrete, visible way of enacting and entering that desire, so that duty converges completely with the desire and delight of communion. It is not that obedience is instrumental and makes communion possible, but obedience itself is a mode of ‘being with’ the desired in joy, delight, and well-being. In a quite concrete way, it is profoundly satisfying to do what the beloved most delights in.” (Page 12)
“A rereading of the gospel of grace and a reconsideration of Enlightenment ideology, in my judgment, will lead to a stunning and compelling fresh awareness: our most serious relationships, including our relationship to the God of the gospel, are, at the same time, profoundly unconditional and massively conditional.” (Page 4)
“We may as well concede at the outset that we live, all of us, in a promiscuous, self-indulgent society that prizes autonomy.1 As a consequence, ‘obedience’ is a tough notion, which we settle mostly either by the vaguest of generalizations, or by confining subject matter to those areas already agreed upon.” (Page 1)
“It is false to take the ‘law/grace’ dichotomy at face value, as though the creator of heaven and earth has no overriding, non-negotiable intention for God’s creatures.” (Page 3)
“discern and accept its true position before God, who loves, delivers, summons, and commands” (Page 4)
Praise for the Print Edition
With characteristic eloquence, Brueggemann dares us to believe in new life amidst the sexual, financial, and political lies that surround us.
—Kathleen M. O’Connor, William M. McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emerita, Columbia Theological Seminary
The provocative essays in this volume are yet another reminder that no one prods the consciences of preachers more effectively, discomfortingly, and profoundly than Walter Brueggemann.
—Thomas G. Long, Bandy Professor of Preaching, Candler School of Theology
Truth-Telling as Subversive Obedience trades in a sort of primal candor that dares to confront our most cherished conventions. Perhaps even more strikingly, this little book creates space for the loving embrace of God.
—Louis Stulman, professor of religion, University of Findlay
- Title: Truth-Telling as Subversive Obedience
- Author: Walter Brueggemann
- Publisher: Cascade
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Pages: 126
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Preaching; Bible. O.T. › Homiletical use; Ten Commandments; Bible. O.T. Exodus › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. O.T. Psalms › Criticism, interpretation, etc
- ISBNs: 9781610972345, 1610972341
- Resource ID: LLS:TRTHTLLNGSSBDNC
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:31:41Z