The Word That Redescribes the World

by Brueggemann, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780800638146
• ISBN10: 080063814X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

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 Israel Brueggemann finds a model of an alternative community ? anchored in YHWH, ever exploring new possibilities, and prophetically bent against empire.Part I: The Word Redescribing the WorldPart II: The Word Redefining the PossiblePart III: The Word Shaping a Community of Discipleship

Author Biography

Walter Brueggemann is Emeritus Professor of Old Testament in the William Marcellus McPheeters chair at Columbia Theological Seminary (Decatur, Georgia).

Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword	ix
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvii
I. The Word Redescribing the World
1. A Text That Redescribes	3	(17)
2. Proclamatory Confrontations	20	(25)
3. A Fresh Performance amid a Failed Script	45	(14)
4. Faith at the Nullpunkt	59	(16)
II. The Word Redefining the Possible
5. The City in Biblical Perspective: Failed and Possible	75	(17)
6. Evangelism and Discipleship: The God Who Calls, The God Who Sends	92	(22)
7. Options for Creatureliness: Consumer or Citizen	114	(24)
8. Ecumenism as the Shared Practice of a Peculiar Identity	138	(19)
III. The Word Shaping a Community of Discipleship
9. Vision for a New Church and a New Century: Part I: Homework against Scarcity	157	(20)
10. Vision for a New Church and a New Century: Part II: Holiness Becomes Generosity	177	(21)
11. Patriotism for Citizens of the Penultimate Superpower	198	(14)
Abbreviations	212	(1)
Notes	213	(16)
Index of Names	229	(2)
Index of Biblical References	231