The emancipation of God: postmarks on cultural prophecy
Understanding the gospel as emancipation has been central to Walter Brueggemann's biblical interpretation. This book illustrates the theme's centrality, addressing the emancipation of God from our attempts to control, the emancipation of the church to be the people of an emancipated God, a...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomfield
Augsburg Fortress Publishers
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Brueggemann, Walter, 1933-2025, The emancipation of God : postmarks on cultural prophecy] (2025) (Neal, Jerusha Matsen, 1972 -)
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | Understanding the gospel as emancipation has been central to Walter Brueggemann's biblical interpretation. This book illustrates the theme's centrality, addressing the emancipation of God from our attempts to control, the emancipation of the church to be the people of an emancipated God, and the emancipation of the gospel to be a cultural prophecy. Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 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. Start with Me Too -- 12. The Results Men -- 13. The Fundamental Dilemma -- 14. The Advent of Agency -- 15. On Gerrymandering Texts -- 16. Elect from Every Nation Yet One o'er All the Earth -- Part III: The Emancipation of the Neighborhood -- 17. The Pathetic Imagination -- 18. Hoe! Hoe! Hoe! -- 19. Deserves to be Paid! -- 20. Cities of Refuge? -- 21. Take Twenty! -- 22. The Hard Work of Exceptionalism -- 23. The Ethical Dignity of the Other -- 24. Profiles in Cowardice -- 25. Imagine! Exterminatory Colonialism and Slave Labor! -- Conclusion: The Wonder of Emancipation. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (277 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5064-9824-9 |