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Texts under Negotiation

The Bible and Postmodern Imagination
  • ISBN-13: 9780800627362
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: AUGSBURG BOOKS
  • By Walter Brueggemann
  • Price: AUD $41.99
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  • Local release date: 30/11/1993
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 127.00mm) 128 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Biblical commentaries [HRCG1]
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Walter Brueggemann issues a passionate call for a bold restructuring of the imagination of faith in our "postmodern" context. Old assumptions-rational, objectivist, absolutist-have for the most part given way to new outlooks, which can be grouped under the term postmodern. What does this new situation imply for the church and for Christian proclamation? Can one find in this new situation opportunity as well as dilemma? How can central biblical themes-self, world, and community-be interpreted and imagined creatively and concretely in this new context?Our task, Brueggemann contends, is not to construct a full alternative world, but rather to fund-to provide the pieces, materials, and resources out of which a new world can be imagined. The place of liturgy and proclamation is "a place where people come to receive new materials, or old materials freshly voiced, which will fund, feed, nurture, nourish, legitimate, and authorize a conterimagination of the world."Six exegetical examples of such a new approach to the biblical text are included.
Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary and the author of numerous books including, from Fortress Press, The Prophetic Imagination; Theology of the Old Testament; and The Message of the Psalms. Brueggemann lives in Traverse City, Michigan.
Preface Funding Postmodern Interpretation The Counterworld of Evangelical Imagination Inside the Counterdrama AbbreviationsNotes Index of Authors Index of Scriptural Texts
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