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Mandate to Difference: An Invitation to the Contemporary Church

2 reviews
Walter Brueggemann

Westminster John Knox Press, 2007

Mandate to Difference: An Invitation to the Contemporary Church
This book addresses the IMPORTANT issues that are facing the church today. Brueggemann gives a fresh perpective on what we really need to change. He is truly a modern prophet.

Theology Of The Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy

14 reviews
Walter Brueggemann

Fortress Press, 2005

Examining the evidence
This work by Walter Brueggemann is perhaps his most comprehensive view of the Old Testament to date. As the title implies, this is a Christian reading of the Old Testament scriptures (for scholars who approach the collection from a more objective standpoint prefer to avoid the use of the term 'Old Testament' in favour of the term 'Hebrew Scriptures'). However, Brueggemann is sensitive to the ...

Prayers for a Privileged People

1 review
Walter Brueggemann

Abingdon Press, 2008

from Abingdon Press
In this book, this much-published author sculpts--as carefully as if with chisel--prayers on behalf of those who are people of privilege and entitlement--the haves--at an urgent moment in our society. The privileged face, on the one hand, the seduction of denial or, on the other, the temptation of despair. These prayers of wisdom and prophetic power remind us that when things go wrong , when we ...

The Prophetic Imagination, 2nd Edition

13 reviews
Walter Brueggemann

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2001

Discover Your Own Prophetic Imagination
Brueggemann has become one of my favorites. His straight forward dealing with the challenges of ministry is right on target and at the same time inspiring. His reality check approach is refreshing. His treatment of the inspirational is a solid reminder to all about why we're even involved in conversations of spirit and religion. If you have questions / concerns about the practice of theology, ...

The Message of the Psalms: A Theological Commentary (Augsberg Old Testament Studies)

3 reviews
Walter Brueggemann

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1984

THE MESSAGE OF THE PSALMS
I was loaned this book at a very difficult time in my life. I could no longer trust a God who had allowed my son to die. But by no longer conversing with God, I also lost my source of sustenance and renewal. This book describes how the Psalms document the changes/seasons of a believing community's life of faith: a movement of faith from orientation to disorientation to a new orientation. It ...

Praying the Psalms: Engaging Scripture and the Life of the Spirit

1 review
Walter Brueggemann

Cascade Books, 2007

A book that gives deserved life to the Psalms.
This looks to be a beautiful book. Its subject matter is not psalms unto themselves, but rather an engagement with these magnificent, ancient poems. I likes very much that Brueggemann starts by putting them into the context within which they were first written. They are not the direct word of God but have been written by human beings within their own lives. Further to this, he goes on to present ...

An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination

4 reviews
Walter Brueggemann

Westminster John Knox Press, 2003

A good and faithful study
I have been a fan of Walter Brueggemann, professor emeritus of biblical studies from Columbia Theological Seminary, since I encountered him through his text 'Theology of the Old Testament', which formed the basis of a course I took my first year in seminary. Brueggemann has a clear and strong writing style, coupled with definite and innovative ideas about the development of the Hebrew Scriptures ...

Genesis: Interpretation : A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching (Interpretation, a Bible Commentary ...

8 reviews
Walter Brueggemann

Westminster John Knox Press, 1982

Perfect for narrative preaching.
I used this book as a key reference when preparing a sermon on the life of Abraham. Brueggmann provides plenty of fascinating insight and details that can help make the biblical story come to life, touching the heart as well as the mind.

Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann

6 reviews
Walter Brueggemann

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2003

Prayer profound...
I first encountered Walter Brueggemann as a scholar of the Hebrew scriptures/Old Testament through his monumental 'Theology of the Old Testament'. When I started seminary a few years after purchasing that volume, there was a class taught based on that book, so I got to know more about Brueggemann's scholarship in some detail. However, that was not all I and the other students learned in that ...

The Word Militant: Preaching a Decentering Word

1 review
Walter Brueggemann

Fortress Press, 2008

Dark Chocolate for Exiles
For those of us that eat books like food, some taste like straw; others taste like dark chocolate. Walter Brueggemann's recent book, The Word Militant: Preaching a Decentered Word, is the latter. The plight of the modern Christian is best captured in an analogy to a dialog in Chaim Potok's classic book, The Chosen (Chawcett Books; Greenwich, CT, 1967) where the Hasidic rabbi Reb Sauders ...

Texts That Linger, Words That Explode: Listening to Prophetic Voices

2 reviews
Walter Brueggemann

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2000

A Great Help for Homilies and Sermons
This book is an excellent read for anyone who is interested in Old Testament scripture. More than just interpreting and expanding, in these essays, Brueggemann brings certain passages into modern day use without violating the original context of the passage. He demonstrates how the texts were used in recent times to support social justice issues. His clear understanding not only of the original ...

A Theological Introduction To The Old Testament

10 reviews

Abingdon Press, 2005

Old Testament Voices for our Times
For the person interested in relating the message of the Old Testament scriptures to present day issues, especially in the area of social justice, this volume offers provocative insights based on sound scholarship. It kick-starts further independent thinking on these issues.

Finally Comes The Poet

3 reviews
Walter Brueggemann

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1989

O. T. Prophet-- N.T. Poet--Totally Poetic Preacher--Revised
"Finally Comes the Poet" is surely one descriptive title of my most read of Bruegge's theological mines. For those who need to read theological mines, it takes away despair as few poets do! Sir Walter stirs up one's creative juices simply in describing, the "generative power of biblical texts to summon and evoke new life." He considers "preaching to be a poetic construal of an alternative ...

Great Prayers of the Old Testament
Walter Brueggemann

Westminster John Knox Press, 2008

The Psalms and the Life of Faith

1 review
Walter Brueggemann

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1995

One whose writing, teaching, preaching, relating are Big!
Having read and/or perused, Finally Comes The Poet, Israel's Praise, The Prophetic Imagination, I decided to wade thru the waters of W.B.'s "out of the depths" of The Psalms And the Life of Faith! Chapter One is remarkable for 81 footnotes, most from Westermann, Wink, Ricoeur, Gunkel, Heschel, Buber and Barth. W.B. favors writing, speaking, thinking in pairs: "creation and Israel, sun and moon, ...

Spirituality of the Psalms (Facets)

4 reviews
Walter Brueggemann

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2001

Brueggemann Shines Again
Barbara and I both avidly admire The Psalms and Dr. Brueggemann. Our greatest expectation for the summer is to hear him preach and teach at the Presbyterian Conference on Music and Worship at Montreat. I am deeply indebted to him for his keenly inspired commentary on GENESIS. For two quarters of Preaching Genesis, I have tuned-into his studies in depth to prepare several sermons and hear young ...

Biblical Perspectives on Evangelism: Living in a Three-Storied Universe

3 reviews
Walter Brueggemann

Abingdon Press, 1993

Brueggemann Calls the Mainline Churchs Back to the Good News
Revered by many as one of our best biblical scholars, Walter Brueggemann prescribes a potent recipe for bringing Christ into the lives of the Unchurched, the Jaded Insider, and our at-risk Children. His advocacy for the narrow path between the legalistic Christian Right and the near Godless Secular Humanists comes, not from the gospels of the New Testament, but from the experiences of the ...

The Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible

18 reviews
Richard J. Foster (editor), Dallas Willard, ...

SanFran, 2005

What a pleaure
Having this provides one with a fine translation and solid opportunity for interpretation and application. I was leary about the last part, since often that can be sappy. Not so here. Selecting a Bible is hard. I have decided that for me, a hard bound book is best and worth any extra cost. Get one like this and add tabs. It is one big book. Shortcoming: No index. But with so much ...

Reverberations of Faith: A Theological Handbook of Old Testament Themes

4 reviews
Walter Brueggemann

Westminster John Knox Press, 2002

useful, insightful, scholarly, and engaging
Walter Brueggemann is a prolific writer and teacher of Biblical Theology. He has a remarkable knack for understanding the ancient Israelite context and meaning in Scriptural narratives, while applying them appropriately and powerfully in situations that relate to Christian faith and practice. Brueggemann is a brilliant scholar, so you are getting top notch material. But many of his books are ...

The Land: Place As Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith (Overtures to Biblical Theology)

3 reviews
Walter Brueggemann

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2002

enthralling
In The Land, Walter Brueggemann consistently pushes one point: that "The Bible ... is primarily concerned with the issue of being displaced and yearning for a place" (2). Through the stories it tells about the relationship between Israel and the land, the Bible is concerned with laying out a vision of how and how not to be in the land. This book is loaded with pathos, reminding us of how the ...

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