Disruptive grace : reflections on God, Scripture, and the church / Walter Brueggemann ; edited and Introduced by Carolyn J. Sharp.

Includes bibliographical references and index.Disruptive grace : the uncompromising theology of Walter Brueggemann / Carolyn J. Sharp -- Part I. Torah: -- Demand and deliverance : Brueggeman on the Torah / Carolyn J. Sharp -- 1. Summons to a dialogic life -- 2. Exodus: limit and possibility -- 3. Sabbath as antidote to anxiety -- 4. The countercommands of Sinai -- Part II. Prophets : -- Refusal and redescription : Brueggemann on the prophets / Carolyn J. Sharp -- 5. Every city a holy city I: the holy city in jeopardy -- 6. Every city a holy city II: the city of possibility -- 7. Prophetic ministry in the national security state -- 8. The land mourns -- Part III. Writings : -- Skepticism and doxology : Brueggemann on the writings / Carolyn J. Sharp -- 9. A necessary condition of a good loud lament -- 10. The fearful thirst for dialogue -- 11. Spirit-led imagination : reality practiced in a sub-version -- 12. Wisdom as practical theology -- Part IV. Canon and Imagination : -- Exodus and resurrection : Brueggemann on the canon / Carolyn J. Sharp -- 13. Hosting alternative worlds -- 14. Impossible talk, impossible walk -- 15. Faithful imagination as sustained subversion -- 16. Scriptural strategies against exclusionary absolutism -- 17. A life and a time other than our own."Walter Brueggemann has been one of the leading voices in Hebrew Bible interpretation for decades. His landmark works in Old Testament theology have inspired and informed a generation of students, scholars, and preachers. These chapters gather his recent addresses and essays, never published before, drawn from all three parts of the Hebrew Bible Torah, prophets, and writings£and addressing the role of the Hebrew canon in the life of the church. Brueggemann turns his critical erudition to those practices prophecy, lament, prayer, faithful imagination, and a holy economics that alone may usher in a humane and peaceful future for our cities and our world, in defiance of the most ruthless aspects of capitalism, the arrogance of militarism, and the disciplines of the national security state" -- Publisher description.

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