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Explores the book of Lamentations and its meaning for faith and
ministry today. The five poems that comprise Lamentations tell of
the community's pain in the aftermath of Jerusalem's destruction.
Christian Theology after Christendom: Engaging the Thought of
Douglas John Hall brings together contemporary thinkers to engage
and build upon Douglas John Hall's work-and to take up his
challenge to reclaim a contextual and de-colonizing theology of the
cross as a means to speak to the realities of life and faith today.
With a focus on contemporary issues, this edited collection
critically analyzes and deconstructs the centuries-old colonial
triumphalism of Christian theology and the church in the West. This
book seeks to frame present day crises in ways that honor a deeply
rooted theologia crucis that does not colonize the "other." It
explores constructive decolonizing possibilities for Christian
theology at the end of Christendom.
Christian Theology after Christendom: Engaging the Thought of
Douglas John Hall brings together contemporary thinkers to engage
and build upon Douglas John Hall's work-and to take up his
challenge to reclaim a contextual and de-colonizing theology of the
cross as a means to speak of the realities of life and faith today.
With a focus on contemporary issues, this collection of essays
critically analyzes and deconstructs the centuries-old colonial
triumphalism of Christian theology and the church in the West. This
edited collection seeks to frame present day crises in ways that
honor a deeply rooted theologia crucis that does not colonize the
"other." It explores constructive decolonizing possibilities for
Christian theology at the end of Christendom.
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Christian Zionism in Africa (Hardcover)
Cynthia Holder Rich; Foreword by Walter Brueggemann; Contributions by Mark Braverman, Suraya Dadoo, Cynthia Holder Rich, …
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Christian Zionism-a movement based on the belief that support of
Israel, and Israeli ownership of and residence in Jerusalem, is a
prerequisite for Christ's return-has been a significant substratum
within theologies and ecclesiologies of many churches in the US and
Europe for centuries. Since the 1970s, US-based Christian Zionism
organizations, encouraged by and collaborating with the Israeli
government, have used a significant amount of resources to spread
the movement into other regions of the world, including Africa. In
many African countries, Christian Zionism combines perniciously
with Prosperity Gospel preaching, interpreting Genesis 12:3 as a
divine map to gain blessings-material and otherwise-through
complete and uncritical support for the modern-day State of Israel.
Many African governments have come to understand that this support
is lucrative--and coercive. African officials working with Israel
learn that openly supporting Palestine will result in their
partnerships with Israel being discontinued. Contributors to this
interdisciplinary volume analyze the meaning and ramifications of
the emergence of Christian Zionist ideologies in Africa and its
churches, in interfaith work, in politics, in law, and in the use
and abuse of power between peoples of different races, histories,
economic strength, and influence on the international stage.
"Smith's sage advice will aid Christians in recognizing the simple
joys of practicing their faith."--Publishers Weekly Western culture
is in a tailspin, and Christian faith is entangled in it: we do
kingdom things in empire ways. Western approaches to faith leave us
feeling depressed, doubting, anxious, and burned out. We know
something is wrong with the way we do faith and church in the West,
but we're so steeped in it that we don't know where to begin to
break old habits. Popular pastor and speaker Mandy Smith invites us
to be unfettered from the deeply ingrained habits of Western
culture so we can do kingdom things in kingdom ways again. She
explores how we can be transformed by new postures and habits that
help us see God already at work in and around us. The way forward
isn't more ideas, programs, and problem-solving but in Jesus's
surprising invitation to the kingdom through childlikeness.
Ultimately, rediscovering childlike habits is a way for us to
remember how to be human. Unfettered helps us reimagine how to
follow God with our whole selves again and join with God's mission
in the world. Foreword by Walter Brueggemann.
Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and
acquisition are producing too many casualties. We need to depart a
kingdom that creates isolation, polarized debate, an exhausted
planet, and violence that comes with the will to empire. The
abbreviation of this empire is called a consumer culture. We think
the free market ideology that surrounds us is true and inevitable
and represents progress. We are called to better adapt, be more
agile, more lean, more schooled, more, more, more. Give it up.
There is no such thing as customer satisfaction. We need a new
narrative, a shift in our thinking and speaking. An Other Kingdom
takes us out of a culture of addictive consumption into a place
where life is ours to create together. This satisfying way depends
upon a neighborly covenant an agreement that we together, will
better raise our children, be healthy, be connected, be safe, and
provide a livelihood. The neighborly covenant has a different
language than market-hype. It speaks instead in a sacred tongue.
Authors Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, and John McKnight invite
you on a journey of departure from our consumer market culture,
with its constellations of empire and control. Discover an
alternative set of beliefs that have the capacity to evoke a
culture where poverty, violence, and shrinking well-being are not
inevitable a culture in which the social order produces enough for
all. They ask you to consider this other kingdom. To participate in
this modern exodus towards a modern community. To awaken its
beginnings are all around us. An Other Kingdom outlines this
journey to construct a future outside the systems world of
solutions.
In Rethinking Justice, Richard H. Bell lifts up and restores an
idea of justice found in classical writers such as Socrates and
Seneca as well as in more recent thinkers. Justice, classically,
has dealt with righting wrongs and restoring peace to individuals
and human communities. We have lost sight of this in our modern
political and legal dealings and must find a way to return it to
mind and to practice. Each chapter looks at ways to restore such
reconciliatory practices to the idea of justice that can be found
in our contemporary life and literature and focuses on numerous
recent cases of abuse of justice among individuals, groups and
nations. Bell approaches justice as a concept that goes hand in
hand with compassion, mercy, and trust. Rethinking Justice reminds
us that we have an obligation to foster peace, be merciful, and
promote reconciliation with our brothers and sisters in humanity.
In Rethinking Justice, Richard H. Bell lifts up and restores an
idea of justice found in classical writers such as Socrates and
Seneca as well as in more recent thinkers. Justice, classically,
has dealt with righting wrongs and restoring peace to individuals
and human communities. We have lost sight of this in our modern
political and legal dealings and must find a way to return it to
mind and to practice. Each chapter looks at ways to restore such
reconciliatory practices to the idea of justice that can be found
in our contemporary life and literature and focuses on numerous
recent cases of abuse of justice among individuals, groups and
nations. Bell approaches justice as a concept that goes hand in
hand with compassion, mercy, and trust. Rethinking Justice reminds
us that we have an obligation to foster peace, be merciful, and
promote reconciliation with our brothers and sisters in humanity.
This collection of essays is drawn from a series of previous
collections to which the author has contributed that were designed
to honour senior scholars in the discipline of Old Testament study.
Each of these essays reflects a distinct intention depending on the
nature of the original collection in which they appeared and the
scholar who was being honoured. Taken together, however, this
collection amounts to an articulation of Brueggemann's distinctive
approach to theological interpretation of the Old Testament.
Already in his major volume on Old Testament theology, Brueggemann
proposed a dynamism of tension, dispute, and contradiction as the
text of ancient Israel sought to give voice to the mystery of God
as a sustaining and disruptive agent in the life of the world. Over
a long period of time, this collection reflects the author's
growing clarity about the task of Old Testament theology. It
further reflects on the nature of the biblical text and the way in
which the God who inhabits the text runs beyond all of our attempts
to define and explain. These essays reflect not so much on
methodological issues, but take up the substantive questions that
regularly occupied these ancient text-makers.
Biblical faith is passionately and relentlessly material in its
emphasis. This claim is rooted in the conviction that the creator
God loves the creation and summons creation to be in sync with the
will of the creator God. This collection of essays is focussed on
the bodily life of the world as it ordered in all of its
problematic political and economic forms. The phrase of the title
'all flesh' in the flood narrative of Genesis 9 refers to all
living creatures who are in covenant with God - human beings,
animals, birds, and fish - as recipients of God's grace, as
dependent upon God's generosity, and as destined for praise and
obedience to God. The insistence on the materiality of life as the
subject of the Bible means that the difficult issues of economics
and the demanding questions of politics are front and centre in the
text. So the Pentateuch pivots around the Exodus narrative and the
emancipation from an unbearable context of abusive labour
practices. In a similar manner, the prophets endlessly address such
questions of social policy and the wisdom teachers reflect on how
to manage the material things of life and social relationships for
the well-being of the community. This emphasis, pervasive in these
essays, is a powerful alternative and a strong resistance against
all of the contemporary efforts to transcend (escape!) the material
into some form of the 'spiritual'. All around us are efforts to
find an easier, more harmonious faith. This may be evoked simply
because of a desire to shield economic, political advantage from
the inescapable critique of biblical faith. Such a temptation is a
serious misreading of the Bible and a critical misjudgment about
the nature of human existence. Thus the Bible addressed the most
urgent issues of our day, and refuses the 'religious temptation'
that avoids lived reality where the power of God is a work.
What's the point of the church anyway? The emerging generation is
opting out of the church in large numbers. They're embarrassed at
how the church is portrayed in the media and dismayed at what
appears to be their options for participation. Is church really
necessary anymore in our day? Is it even possible? Tim Soerens sees
this unsettled state of affairs as an extraordinary opportunity:
the church, he says, is on the edge of a new possibility at the
very moment so much of it feels like it's falling apart. In his
extensive travels in all kinds of neighborhoods, Soerens has seen
the beginnings of this movement firsthand. In Everywhere You Look,
he lays out practical, actionable steps for building collaborative
communities in any neighborhood. Here is a vision of the church
grounded in a grassroots movement of ordinary people living out
what it means to be the church in their everyday lives. Read this
book—and join the movement.
The necessary context of prophetic preaching, Walter Brueggemann
argues, is a contestation between narratives: the dominant
narrative of our time, which promoting self-sufficiency at the
national level (through militarism) and the personal (through
consumerism), and the countervailing narrative of a world claimed
by a God who is gracious, uncompromisingand real. In previous work
Brueggemann has pointed us again and again to the indispensability
of imagination. Here he writes for those who bear responsibility
for regular proclamation in communities of faith, describing the
discipline of a prophetic imagination that is unflinchingly
realistic and unwaveringly candid.
Addressing what many consider the world's most controversial
conflict, Naim Ateek offers a succinct primer on liberation
theology in the context of the Palestinian struggle for freedom and
self-determination. Beginning with the historical roots of this
struggle, he shows how the memory of the Holocaust served to trump
the claims and aspirations of the native inhabitants of Palestine,
and how later Israeli occupation and settlements in the West Bank
have contributed to their suffering and oppression. Supported by
many Western Christians, Israeli claims to the land rely on a
particular exclusivist reading of the Bible. In contrast, a
Palestinian theology of liberation responds with a counterstrategy
for biblical interpretation, emphasizing the prophetic themes of
inclusivity and justice. Ateek concludes by providing principles
for achieving security, peace, and justice for all peoples in
Israel/Palestine.
'Wise words ... filled with a message of hope for humanity and the
world' - Irish Catholic Walter Brueggemann is beloved and respected
by scholars, preachers and laity alike for his penetrating insights
on Scripture and prophetic diagnoses of our culture. Both are woven
throughout this new collection of his writings, A Gospel of Hope,
which encourages readers to abandon what is safe and routine and
instead embrace the audacity required to live out one's faith. This
must-have volume gathers Brueggemann's wisdom on topics ranging
from anxiety and abundance to partisanship and the role of faith in
public life.
Using a model of orientation - disorientation - new orientation,
Brueggemann explores how the genres of the Psalms can'be viewed in
terms of their function. This results in fresh readings of these
ancient songs that illumine their spiritual depth. The voices of
the Psalms come through in all their bold realism.
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Real World Faith
Walter Brueggemann
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This widely praised expository commentary by Walter Brueggemann -
one of the premier Old Testament scholars of our time - explores
the historical and social milieu of Jeremiah and offers a
theological interpretation of this central book of the Old
Testament. In contrast to current approaches to Jeremiah,
Brueggemann uses a combination of sociological and literary
analysis to provide a fresh look at the critical theological issues
in the Jeremiah tradition - a look that ultimately yields
compelling insights into the message and significance of Jeremiah
both for this tumultuous period in the history of ancient Israel
and for our own complicated times. This combined edition of
Brueggemann's original two-volume work, published until recently as
part of the International Theological Commentary series, will
continue to be an essential resource for pastors, students, and
general readers. It is reprinted here with an important new preface
by Brueggemann that surveys the current state of Jeremiah studies.
Silence is a complex matter. It can refer to awe before unutterable
holiness, but it can also refer to the coercion where some voices
are silenced in the interest of control by the dominant voices. It
is the latter silence that Walter Brueggemann explores, urging us
to speak up in situations of injustice. Interrupting Silence
illustrates that the Bible is filled with stories where
marginalized people break repressive silence and speak against it.
Examining how maintaining silence allows the powerful to keep
control, Brueggemann motivates readers to consider situations in
their lives where they need to either interrupt silence or be part
of the problem, convincing us that God is active and wanting us to
act for justice.
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