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Author : Walter Brueggemann
Release : 2000-01-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 740/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Texts That Linger, Words That Explode by : Walter Brueggemann
Download or read book Texts That Linger, Words That Explode written by Walter Brueggemann. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Testament theologian extraordinaire reflects on the meaning of Israel's prophets for today's world.
Author : Walter Brueggemann
Release : 2000
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 311/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Texts that Linger, Words that Explode by : Walter Brueggemann
Download or read book Texts that Linger, Words that Explode written by Walter Brueggemann. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These studies on the prophetic texts from the Hebrew Bible cover a wide range of topics, challenging the reader to confront the issues of faithfulness, responsibility, and justice in an ever-changing world. Brueggemann explores how these prophetic traditions have the potential to continually resonate in our contemporary communities and individual lives. Rather than "dead words" to kingdoms no longer in existence, the Israelite and Judean prophets have an enduring impact on how God challenges our values, our perspectivesand our very lives. Brueggemann has become well known for providing fresh perspective on ancient texts, always in conversation with great thinkers and people of faith.
Author : David W. Smith
Release : 2020-02-29
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 19X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Stumbling toward Zion by : David W. Smith
Download or read book Stumbling toward Zion written by David W. Smith. This book was released on 2020-02-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful and challenging book, David W. Smith identifies a crisis at the heart of the church. It is the crisis of triumphalism – the tendency to avoid honest engagement with brokenness and suffering, privileging victory while rejecting the practice of lament. This imbalance, Smith argues, threatens to undermine the credibility of faith for a watching world, alienating those experiencing hardship and oppression; those wrestling with doubt, uncertainty, and loss. In Stumbling toward Zion, Smith reclaims the importance of lament throughout Scripture – from the Old Testament to the gospel narratives and Paul’s letters – and explores the history and impact of its loss within certain church traditions. World Christianity, with its heartlands in contexts of poverty, war and persecution, has a crucial role to play in recovering an understanding of God’s love for a suffering creation capable of restoring the credibility of Christian witness in the midst of our brokenness. Containing practical application for church life and mission, Smith offers an opportunity to reengage with biblical lament, rediscover neglected aspects of Christian faith, and reawaken to God’s heart for a suffering world.
Author : Walter Brueggemann
Release : 2006
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 146/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Word that Redescribes the World by : Walter Brueggemann
Download or read book The Word that Redescribes the World written by Walter Brueggemann. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 World Part II: The Word Redefining the Possible Part III: The Word Shaping a Community of Discipleship
Author : Katongole, Emmanuel
Release : 2017
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 347/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Born from Lament by : Katongole, Emmanuel
Download or read book Born from Lament written by Katongole, Emmanuel. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no more urgent theological task than to provide an account of hope in Africa, given its endless cycles of violence, war, poverty, and displacement. So claims Emmanuel Katongole, an innovative theological voice from Africa. In the midst of suffering, Katongole says, hope takes the form of "arguing" and "wrestling" with God. Such lament is not merely a cry of pain--it is a way of mourning, protesting, and appealing to God. As he unpacks the rich theological and social dimensions of the practice of lament in Africa, Katongole tells the stories of courageous Christian activists working for change in East Africa and invites readers to enter into lament along with them.
