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 has an undergraduate degree from Wheaton College 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.
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Part I New Community 1. Music-Making Counter-Community 2. History is Clay 3. The Dangerous Arson of a Bramble Part II New Governance 4. Beyond the Governor's Illusion* 5. Essential Components of a Government? 6. Rescinding Absolutes 7. The Strange Work of Sons-in-Law Part III New Worship 8. Intimacy Beyond Scholasticism 9. The God of the Other 10. The Empowering, Illuminating Word from Elsewhere Part IV New Economy 11. Let's Do the Numbers 12. Money Talk in the Church 13. The Unending Work of Contradiction Part V New Earth 14. Tractor--Icon of Predatory Development 15. Trees: Signals of Hope and Defiance 16. Mapping Part VI New Heaven 17. When Water does not Win 18. The End of Imagination? 19. Written Up, Written Down 20. Originalism 21. Unshakeable Systems