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Sto caricando le informazioni... Testimony to Otherwise: The Witness of Elijah and Elishadi Walter Brueggemann
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Using the witness from a selection of narratives in the Elijah/Elisha cycle, Brueggemann writes about the power of testimony. In other words, "where there is not speaking and hearing of an alternative world, there is no faith, no courage, no freedom to choose differently." It is this alternative world, the "imaginative or" that consistently postures the prophet over and against the royal "either." In each case example, Brueggemann makes hints at bridging the horizons and states at the outset in his introduction that "the urgency of preaching and all the utterance of the church and synagogue, I suggest, is that we know intuitively that where there is not face-to-face truth-telling, we are by that much diminished in the human experience." The way in which Brueggemann brings holistic biblical theology to bear upon excellent exegetical analysis provides for remarkable evidence to support his thesis and ultimately quite a surprise in the concluding chapters. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
The Bible and its preaching are for every generation urgent and indispensable, but they are especially urgent today. Within the preaching of Elijah and Elisha lie the possibilities and inspiration for the church to recover its voice in a way that is unfettered and unencumbered by old habits. It is the chance, and the responsibility, of this new voice to replicate in the present life of the church alternatives underway in the biblical text itself, to show that life "could be otherwise, " and to make it so. Considering these narratives canonically, Walter Brueggemann shows how the memories of Elijah and Elisha took on a quality and authority of lasting testimony. They exhibit a world profoundly open to the gifts, energies, and visions given by God. Brueggemann shows how such prophetic narratives summon listening Israel to a radical either/or decision, endlessly insisting that there are choices to be made that hold options for the world as otherwise. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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