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| Title | : | The Prophetic Imagination |
| Author | : | Walter Brueggemann |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Second Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 151 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 2001 by Fortress Press (first published 1978) |
| Categories | : | Religion. Theology. Nonfiction. Spirituality. Christianity. Christian |
Walter Brueggemann
Paperback | Pages: 151 pages Rating: 4.31 | 3538 Users | 179 Reviews
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It is almost cliche to say that our world has been numbed into apathy about a great many things, spirituality included. If fact, I believe it would be fair to say that many Christians have found their faith to be drained of mysticism and imagination. Taught that mysticism is evil or somehow against the Bible (untrue), evangelicals exhibit the same kind of legalism we point out in others. Services become a matter of "stand, sit, pray, sit, stand, [perhaps raise hands], sit, stand, listen to preacher and study the word like a textbook". My take could sound a bit harsh, but perhaps the urgency of needing new hope, a new language of hope, a new prophetic voice of compassion in a world that allows apathy to endure legalism is the better point I'm trying to make. Brueggeman opens wide the doors of heart, mind, body and soul so that believers can accept new breath from God into their lives. Challenging the dominant culture, he pokes into places taboo and pries into our social conscious an unconscious to become a true holy irritant.List Books To The Prophetic Imagination
| Original Title: | The Prophetic Imagination |
| ISBN: | 0800632877 (ISBN13: 9780800632878) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.31 From 3538 Users | 179 ReviewsNotice Containing Books The Prophetic Imagination
We read this as a part of of our theology and culture book group. There is a preface to the new edition (the first edition was published in 1978) that I found really helpful--"... the enmeshment of the United States church in the raging force of globalization and easy accommodation of church faith and practice to consumer commodification makes the urgency of "prophetic consciousness" palpable among us"For the most part, I really liked it. The role of lament and grief in penetrating the numbnessWe need a generation to rise up and give the imagination of heaven... less noise of all thats wrong with the way things are and more leadership to what is the heart of God. Another mandatory read.
It is almost cliche to say that our world has been numbed into apathy about a great many things, spirituality included. If fact, I believe it would be fair to say that many Christians have found their faith to be drained of mysticism and imagination. Taught that mysticism is evil or somehow against the Bible (untrue), evangelicals exhibit the same kind of legalism we point out in others. Services become a matter of "stand, sit, pray, sit, stand, [perhaps raise hands], sit, stand, listen to
12/21/2016: read again. And can't think of a more penetrating, immediate must-read for "orphaned believers"-- to borrow the OtR lyric. Filled with insight and commentary on the OT that bears remarkable and necessary relevance to today.6/22/2015: A book I will return to again and again.
This is the best book I have ever read for understanding the prophets and prophecy genre in the Bible. Brueggemann points out that the work of a prophet is to criticize and energize. Provocatively, he opines that liberal Christianity is good at criticizing the Church and that conservative Christianity is good at energizing it. The two sides hold the related priorities of the compassion/justice of God and the freedom of God, respectively.Moses is a prophet who calls out to the people of God in a
I don't think I can summarize this book better than the author can. He discussed the purpose of prophecy in the Bible and how it still applies now: "On the one hand, Jeremiah practices the radical criticism against the royal consciousness. He does this essentially by conjuring a funeral and bringing the grief of dying Israel to public expression. He does this to penetrate then umb denial of the royal community, which pretended that things must go on forever. On the other hand, Second Isaiah
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