Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is regarded as the premier Old Testament interpreter and biblical theologian of today. Among his many publications are Prophetic Imagination and Old Testament Theology. Conrad L. Kanagy is professor of sociology at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania. He holds an undergraduate degree from Wheaton College (Illinois) and a PhD from Penn State. He is the author of eight books and numerous scholarly articles. His primary area of expertise is American and global Christianity. He blogs at www.centerforpropheticimagination.org and hosts the podcast A Church Dismantled--A Kingdom Restored.
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Preface Prayer Introduction All Things Emancipated Part I The Emancipation of God 1. The Emancipatory Work of Interpretation 2. Some Dare Call it Treason 3. Wir Sind Da! 4. Watch Where You Go and How You Get There 5. Two Farmers...Two Ways 6. On the Way to Otherwise 7. Biodiversity contra Babel 8. An Iconic Act of Civil Disobedience Part II The Emancipation of the Church 9. Saved in and Through Weakness 10. I Bet on You 11. Take Twenty! 12. Start with Me Too 13. The Results Men 14. The Fundamental Dilemma 15. The Advent of Agency 16. On Gerrymandering Texts 17. Elect from Every Nation Yet One o'er All the Earth Part III The Emancipation of the Neighborhood 18. The Pathetic Imagination 19. Hoe! Hoe! Hoe! 20. Deserves to be Paid! 21. Cities of Refuge? 22. The Hard Work of Exceptionalism 23. The Ethical Dignity of the Other 24. Profiles in Cowardice 25. On Seeing "the Enemy" a Second Time 26. Imagine! Extermination Colonialism and Slave Labor! Conclusion The Wonder of Emancipation