2008
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Against the easy assurance of a too-enculturated religion, Walter Brueggemann refocuses the preaching task around the decentering, destabilizing, always risky Word that confronts us in Scripture - if we have the courage to hear. These powerful essays, previously available only in journals, are here combined with a newly composed preface and introduction. Includes a foreword from the Reverend William H. Willimon. Contents Foreword William H. Willimon Preface At Risk with the Text
- Preaching as Reimagination
- The Preacher, the Text, and the People
- Ancient Utterance and Contemporary Hearing
- An Imaginative 'Or'
- That the World May Be Redescribed
- The Social Nature of the Biblical Text for Preaching
- The Shrill Voice of the Wounded Party
- Life or De-privileged Communication
- Preaching to Exiles
- Preaching a Sub-version
- Truth-telling as Subversive Obedience
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Walter Brueggemann
Author · 115 books
Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary. He is the world's leading interpreter of the Old Testament and is the author of numerous books, including Westminster John Knox Press best sellers such as Genesis and First and Second Samuel in the Interpretation series, An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination, and Reverberations of Faith: A Theological Handbook of Old Testament Themes.
