Disruptive Grace: Reflections on God, Scripture, and the ChurchWalter 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 on every part of the Hebrew Bible, many of them never published before, bringing his erudition to bear on those practices—prophecy, lament, prayer, faithful imagination, and a holy economics—that alone may usher in a humane and peaceful future for our cities. |
Contents
IntroductIon | 1 |
Brueggemann on the Torah | 13 |
Limit and Possibility | 38 |
Sabbath as Antidote to Anxiety | 55 |
The Countercommands of Sinai | 75 |
Brueggemann on the Prophets | 95 |
The City of Possibility | 112 |
Prophetic Ministry in the National Security State | 129 |
Brueggemann on the Canon | 263 |
Impossible TalkImpossible Walk | 287 |
Faithful Imagination as Sustained Subversion | 296 |
Scriptural Strategies against Exclusionary Absolutism | 316 |
A Life and a Time Other than Our Own | 336 |
Retrospect | 361 |
Notes | 367 |
Acknowledgments | 379 |
The Land Mourns | 155 |
Brueggemann on the Writings | 175 |
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