In this volume, Walter Brueggemann focuses on Second Isaiah (Isaiah 40-55), believed to be written by a second exilic poet, and Third Isaiah (Isaiah 56-66), a third group of texts that rearticulate Isaianic theology in yet another faith situation. Brueggemann discusses both the distinctiveness of the texts and their canonical relatedness. Books in the Westminster Bible Companion series assis…
Jeremiah's poignant lament over Judah's social and religious disintegration reflects God's own pathos-laden yearning for his disobedient covenant people. In this widely praised expository commentary Walter Brueggemann, one of the premier Old Testament scholars of our time, explores the historical setting and message of Jeremiah as well as the text's relevance for the church today. Offering a…
The Christian gospel, says Brueggemann, is too easily preached and heard. Too often technical reason and excessive religious certitude reduce the gospel to coercive, debilitating pietisms that mask the text's meaning and freeze the hearers heart. With skill and imagination, Brueggemann demonstrates how the preacher can engage in daring speech-differently voiced and therefore differently hear…
Buku ini merupakan sebuah karya spektakuler pada akhir abad 20 dan awal abad 21 di bidang teologi dari seorang Brueggemann. Segar, menyeluruh dan menggugah! Inilah kesan terdalam bila membaca buku ini. Dalam buku ini kita menemukan teologi Perjanjian Lama yang paling lengkap dan paling penting yang muncul dari latar belakang Amerika pada abad ini. Kegairahan penulis dan sering kali juga berbaga…
"The poet is exile sings his people to homecoming. And that is a theme to which the exiled chruch in America is now summoned. The gospel is that we may go home."
Buku ini merupakan sebuah karya spektakuler pada akhir abad 20 dan awal abad 21 di bidang teologi dari seorang Brueggemann. Segar, menyeluruh dan menggugah! Inilah kesan terdalam bila membaca buku ini. Dalam buku ini kita menemukan teologi Perjanjian Lama yang paling lengkap dan paling penting yang muncul dari latar belakang Amerika pada abad ini. Kegairahan penulis dan sering kali juga berbaga…