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Interpretation and obedience : from faithful reading to faithful living / Walter Brueggemann.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, ©1991.Description: x, 325 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0800624785 (alk. paper)
  • 9780800624781 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 261 20
LOC classification:
  • BS476 .B72 1991
Contents:
Third world of evangelical imagination -- Embarrassing footnote -- Legitimacy of sectarian hermeneutic : 2 Kings 18-19 -- Transformative potential of a public metaphor : Isaiah 37:21-29 -- Case for an alternative reading -- Canonization and contextualization -- Commandments and liberated, liberating bonding -- Transformative agenda of the pastoral office -- Monopoly and marginality in imagination -- God's faithful plan : a context for caring citizenship -- Land : fertility and justice -- Land and our urban appetites -- Welcoming the stranger -- Cosmic hurt/personal possibility : Jer. 4:23-28; Isa. 45:18-22; Luke 6:21-31.
Summary: Drawing on specific texts that speak to cosmic hurt and personal possibility, Walter Brueggemann demonstrates the essential connection between faithful reading of the biblical text and faithful living in a world of banal, yet threatening values. He assesses the nature of obedience today in such areas as ministry, justice, the land, education, hospitality, and the contemporary imagination. - Publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Third world of evangelical imagination -- Embarrassing footnote -- Legitimacy of sectarian hermeneutic : 2 Kings 18-19 -- Transformative potential of a public metaphor : Isaiah 37:21-29 -- Case for an alternative reading -- Canonization and contextualization -- Commandments and liberated, liberating bonding -- Transformative agenda of the pastoral office -- Monopoly and marginality in imagination -- God's faithful plan : a context for caring citizenship -- Land : fertility and justice -- Land and our urban appetites -- Welcoming the stranger -- Cosmic hurt/personal possibility : Jer. 4:23-28; Isa. 45:18-22; Luke 6:21-31.

Drawing on specific texts that speak to cosmic hurt and personal possibility, Walter Brueggemann demonstrates the essential connection between faithful reading of the biblical text and faithful living in a world of banal, yet threatening values. He assesses the nature of obedience today in such areas as ministry, justice, the land, education, hospitality, and the contemporary imagination. - Publisher.

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