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Truth and Hope - Essays for a Perilous Age (Paperback)
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Truth and Hope - Essays for a Perilous Age (Paperback)
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In this varied collection of essays, Walter Brueggemann provides a
lens into biblical teachings concerning the present age of fake
news, lies, and alternate realities. Compiled and edited by Louis
Stulman, professor of religion at the University of Findlay, these
essays carry a common theme of truth and hope. As Brueggemann
writes in the preface, there is no doubt that the prophetic
tradition regularly engages in truth-telling in order to expose
social reality as a systemic act of falseness that contradicts the
purposes of God. The prophetic tradition of Jeremiah, for instance,
is preoccupied with truth-telling that exposes falseness. The
prophet exposes the deceit of dominant culture. That same prophetic
tradition (like many others) turns eventually to the work of
hope-telling. Such hope does not doubt that the faithful God can
create futures, a way out of no way. The sequence from truth to
hope in the book of Jeremiah is characteristic of the prophetic
books of the Old Testament. These several prophetic voices (that
gave canonical shape to the prophetic books) knew that this
sequence is definingly important. There can be no hope until truth
is told. Our temptation, of course, is to do the work of hope
without the prior work of truth. Readers will find this collection
of essays to be theologically rooted in the concept of prophetic
tradition as a means of truth-telling. Brueggemann explores that,
without God, truth-telling is nothing more than harping, and
hope-telling is only wishful thinking.
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