The Word That Redescribes the World: The Bible and Discipleship
Overview
Known as one of America’s best theologians and one of the world’s foremost scholars on the Old Testament, Walter Brueggemann has inspired young scholars and students and driven the discourse on theology with some of the biggest players in contemporary Bible scholarship.
In the last several years, Walter Brueggemann’s writings have directly addressed the situation of Christian communities in today’s globalized context, with its consumerist lifestyles, vast inequalities, and near-imperial exercises of power. His insights, forged in rugged encounters with the texts of the Old Testament, are sharp, painful, and indispensable. In the people of Israel Brueggemann finds a model of an alternative community—anchored in YHWH, ever exploring new possibilities, and prophetically bent against empire.
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Key Features
- Provides essential Old Testament scholarship from one of the most prominent living scholars
- Defines preaching as “truth speaking to power,” and examines what this means in interpreting biblical text
- Includes material perfect for pastors, professors, counselors, and Old Testament scholars
- Examines Israel’s exile as a metaphor for the church’s contemporary existence
Contents
- I. The Word Redescribing the World
- A Text That Redescribes
- Proclamatory Confrontations
- A Fresh Performance amid a Failed Script
- Faith at the Nullpunkt
- II. The Word Redefining the Possible
- The City in Biblical Perspective: Failed and Possible
- Evangelism and Discipleship: The God Who Calls, The God Who Sends
- Options for Creatureliness: Consumer or Citizen
- Ecumenism as the Shared Practice of a Peculiar Identity
- III. The Word Shaping a Community of Discipleship
- Vision for a New Church and a New Century: Part I: Homework against Scarcity
- Vision for a New Church and a New Century: Part II: Holiness Becomes Generosity
- Patriotism for Citizens of the Penultimate Superpower
Praise for the Print Edition
Readers cannot come away from these essays unchallenged or unchanged. The ethic of resistance and engagement that Brueggemann puts forth demands a response equally vigorous and passionate. In that sense, he finds himself in the company of the prophets that the Old Testament scholar so highly esteems.
—Craig Stephans, author, Shakespeare on Spirituality: Life-Changing Wisdom from Shakespeare’s Plays
Product Details
- Title: The Word that Redescribes the World: The Bible and Discipleship
- Author: Walter Brueggemann
- Editor: Patrick D. Miller
- Publisher: Augsburg Fortress
- Publication Date: 2011
- Pages: 256
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
Patrick D. Miller is Charles T. Haley Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey.
Top Highlights
“Creation is the claim of the text that the life of the world is bounded by the self-giving generosity of God” (Page 8)
“Mutatis mutandis, my bid is that contemporary preaching in the postmodern U.S. setting addresses folks of Christian descent who have been tossed about by the vagaries of historical circumstance and who have largely forgotten rootage in Moses and in Jesus and the ongoing teaching tradition. The task, in such a critical context, is to retext this community, to turn the imagination and the practice of the community of the baptized back to its most elemental assurances and claims.” (Page 36)
“recovery of the text is to mediate hope of utter fidelity into all futures in the face of a dominant text of despair” (Page 13)
“the world is other than we had taken it to be, because the world is the venue for God’s reign” (Page xiv)
“The recovery of the text is in order to mediate a memory of generosity in the face of a dominant text of amnesia.” (Page 9)
- Title: The Word that Redescribes the World: The Bible and Discipleship
- Author: Walter Brueggemann
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 2006
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Theology; Christianity and culture
- Resource ID: LLS:WORDREDESCRIBE
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T06:42:59Z
