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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 vision for the community of God whose words
and practices of lament, protest and complain give rise to an
alternative social order that opposes the "totalism" of the day.
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. Linking Exodus to Kings to Jeremiah to Jesus, he argues
that the prophetic vision not only embraces the pain of the people,
but creates an energy and amazement based on the new thing that God
is doing. This edition builds off the revised and updated 2001
edition and includes a new afterword by Brueggemann and a new
foreword by Davis Hankins.
The Walter Brueggemann Library brings together the wide-ranging and
enlivening thought of popular biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann
over his storied career. Each volume collects previously published
work on a biblical theme that has deeply informed Brueggemann's
scholarship, in an accessible digest for readers who want to
freshly engage his prophetically minded but approachable writing on
the topic. In Our Hearts Wait, Brueggemann meditates on the
emotional range of our longings and gratitudes in the psalms,
revealing how this bold outpouring of our full selves to the divine
has effects far beyond introspection. He traces how the language of
the psalms offers a template for liturgies that shape not only our
collective worship and communities, but the worlds they create and
sustain. Words of worship do not fall vacant and inactive-they help
bring into being realities both sacred and sociopolitical.
Throughout this exploration of the psalms, Brueggemann shows
readers how the language we use in worship performs what it
proclaims. It nurtures and challenges us in seasons of orientation
and praise, disorientation and grief, reorientation, and
thanksgiving-bringing our full attention to each experience in its
turn. But in doing so, the words and deeds of worship can also
sharpen our awareness of social constructions and relationships
that undergird our common life. They reveal power imbalances and
uneven distributions of resources, and, if we let them, urge us
forward in our efforts toward justice. Thus, psalms of praise
express trust in and abandonment to God, and also pose sharp
critiques of unjust public policies that abandon those who are
socially invisible. The psalms of grief and lament accompany
communities through real experiences of loss and suffering-but also
make room for the sufferers to be heard and to challenge the status
quo. The language of worship, when used intentionally and with
care, helps to create a reality marked by fidelity, abundance,
truth, hope, and dependence on God. With Brueggemann as guide,
readers can apprehend the potency of the psalms' bold petition and
dialogue with God, giving voice to the distressed and anticipating
the transformation of our lives together and as a society.
Questions for reflection are included at the end of each chapter,
making this book ideal for individual or group study.
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 consistently
attempts to weave the biblical texts--vested as they are with the
authority of a storyteller--into the deep contours of his readers'
experiences, in order to foster a tenacious solidarity that might
overcome both the psychic numbness cultivated by a 24-hour news
cycle as well as the anxious possessiveness nurtured by so many
privatized spiritualities. Brueggemann brings the "transformative
potential" of the biblical texts to bear on critical contemporary
contexts, including but not limited to economic disparities, racial
injustice and white supremacy, climate and care for creation, and
the power of memory and mentoring. He delves deeply in the Psalms,
which he says, "provides a foundational script for living into the
fullest and deepest realities of human existence." And he draws
from the Prophets his foundational concept of totalism, which he
defines as "automated fragmentation of social life such that we
habitually and callously disregard our relations with others."
Recent philosophical reexaminations of sacred texts have focused
almost exclusively on the Christian New Testament, and Paul in
particular. "The Book of Job and the Immanent Genesis of
Transcendence "revives the enduring philosophical relevance and
political urgency of the book of Job and thus contributes to the
recent "turn toward religion" among philosophers such as Slavoj Zžk
and Alain Badiou. Job is often understood to be a trite folktale
about human limitation in the face of confounding and absolute
transcendence; on the contrary, Hankins demonstrates that Job is a
drama about the struggle to create a just and viable life in a
material world that is ontologically incomplete and consequently
open to radical, unpredictable transformation. Job's abiding legacy
for any future materialist theology becomes clear as Hankins
analyzes Job's dramatizations of a transcendence that is not
externally opposed to but that emerges from an ontologically
incomplete material world.
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