Results for "Brueggemann, Walter"

In Ancient Echoes, Walter Brueggemann -- one of our most influential biblical scholars -- responds to eight ""truth claims"" made by the radical right in US politics. In his book Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History (Random House 2020), Kurt Andersen enunciates eight ""truth clai... Read More about Ancient Echoes: Refusing the Fear-Filled, Greed-Driven Toxicity of the Far Right

Understanding the gospel as emancipation has been central to Walter Brueggemann's biblical interpretation. This book illustrates the theme's centrality, addressing the emancipation of God from our attempts to control, the emancipation of the church to be the people of an emancipated God, and the ema... Read More about The Emancipation of God: Postmarks on Cultural Prophecy

This collection of prayers by noted Hebrew Bible scholar Walter Brueggemann can be used in both public worship and private devotion.These prayers run the gamut from particular days in the church year to special moments in the lives of worshiping communities to events playing out on the world stage. ... Read More about Waiting in Gratitude: Prayers for Joy

Jesus died with a psalm on his lips. For millennia, humans have been shaped by the Psalms. And before the Nazis banned him from publishing, German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer published this book on the Psalms. What comfort is found in the Psalter? What praise, and what challenge? What threat? In ... Read More about Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible

This book provides biblical evidence of the structural and systemic factors that have long been part of the story of poverty. The people of God have often denied such structural claims in favor of the belief that individuals are poor because of personal choice. This absolves the social institutions ... Read More about Poverty in the Promised Land: Neighborliness, Resistance, and Restoration

In Grace Abounds: God's Abundance against the Fear of Scarcity, Walter Brueggemann explores our human struggle of having a smallness of mind that breeds competition and envy against God's prompting to move beyond our small selves to trust in God's ultimate provision and to extend ourselves to others... Read More about Grace Abounds: God's Abundance Against the Fear of Scarcity (Walter Brueggemann Library)