Disruptive Grace: Reflections on God, Scripture, and the Church - Couverture rigide

Brueggemann, Walter; Sharp, Carolyn J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0800697944 ISBN 13 : 9780800697945

Editeur : Fortress Press,U.S., 2011

Synopsis

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 addresses and essays, never published before, drawn from all three parts of the Hebrew BibleTorah, prophets, and writingsand addressing the role of the Hebrew canon in the life of the church.Brueggemann turns his critical erudition to those practicesprophecy, lament, prayer, faithful imagination, and a holy economicsthat 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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Walter Brueggemann was William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary until his death in 2025. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is still regarded as the premier Old Testament interpreter and biblical theologian. Among his many publications are Prophetic Imagination and Old Testament Theology

Carolyn J. Sharp is Associate Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at Yale Divinity School and author of Prophecy and Ideology in Jeremiah (2003) and Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible: The Power of the Unspoken in Sacred Texts (forthcoming).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fortress Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0800697944
• ISBN 13: 9780800697945
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
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• Personne responsable: non disponible