Brueggemann: 42 books
by Walter Brueggemann
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries series offers compact, critical commentaries on all the books of the Old Testament. In addition to providing fundamental information on and insights into Old Testament writings, these commentaries exemplify the tasks and procedures of careful, critical exegesis...
by Walter Brueggemann
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Walter Brueggemann is the master of finding fresh and compelling dimensions of meaning in texts so familiar they barely scratch the surface of our consciousness. In this exciting collection, Brueggemann finds that when we admit we are dust, we can be liberated. Why? Because we are free from acting...
Reality, Grief, Hope
Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Walter Brueggemann is one of the most highly regarded Old Testament scholars of our time; talk-show host Krista Tippett has even called him "a kind of theological rock star." In this new book Brueggemann incisively probes our society-in-crisis from the ground up.
Pointing out striking...
by Walter Brueggemann
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Like athletes, preachers carry inside them the voices of their most challenging coaches--people who have encouraged them to dig deeper, stretch farther, and more faithfully pursue their craft and calling. In these crystalline essays, Walter Brueggemann is that voice again, shaking us free of the dust...
The Prophetic Imagination
40th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
A classic text in biblical theology--still relevant for today and tomorrow.
In this 40th anniversary edition of the classic text from one of the most influential biblical scholars of our time, Walter Brueggemann, offers a theological and ethical reading of the Hebrew Bible. He finds there a...
Tenacious Solidarity
Biblical Provocations on Race, Religion, Climate, and the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Tenacious Solidarity features essays and new writings from 2014 to 2018. As all of Walter Brueggemann's writing is, the chapters are deeply biblical while also concerned with the identities, practices, and obligations of religious communities in contemporary contexts within the United States. Brueggemann...
Rich, Free, and Miserable
The Failure of Success in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Compared to much of the rest of the world, America and its citizens are rich. But many people are also deeply miserable—at work, at home, or both. In this provocative book, author John Brueggemann unpacks why so many people are struggling, both emotionally and financially, in a nation that looks...
by Walter Brueggemann
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2004
The purpose of this collection of Brueggemann's essays is to bring to the fore a much more extensive critical engagement on his part with the current discussion about the Old Testament, its character, its authority, its theology, and especially its God.... Readers of these essays who think they may...
Inscribing the Text
Sermons and Prayers of Walter Brueggemann
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2004
This volume contains the most recent collection of Walter Brueggemann's sermons and prayers.
Prophetic Imagination
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2001
In this challenging and enlightening treatment, Brueggemann traces the lines from the radical vision of Moses to the solidification of royal power in Solomon to the prophetic critique of that power with a new vision of freedom in the prophets. Here he traces the broad sweep from Exodus to Kings to...
Word that Redescribes the World
The Bible and Discipleship
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2006
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...
An Unsettling God
The Heart Of The Hebrew Bible
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
In the pages of the Hebrew Bible, ancient Israel gave witness to its encounter with a profound and uncontrollable reality experienced through relationship. This book, drawn from the heart of foremost Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann’s Theology of the Old Testament, distills a career’s...
Theology of the Old Testament
Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
In this powerful book, Walter Brueggemann moves the discussion of Old Testament theology beyond the dominant models of previous generations.
Brueggemann focuses on the metaphor and imagery of the courtroom trial in order to regard the theological substance of the Old Testament as a series of...
The Practice of Prophetic Imagination
Preaching an Emancipating Word
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The necessary context of prophetic preaching, Walter Brueggemann argues, is “a contestation between narratives”: the dominant narrative of our time, which promoting self-sufficiency at the national level (through militarism) and the personal (through consumerism), and the countervailing...