Reality, Grief, Hope : Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks, Walter Brueggemann : book review
The slimness of this volume is in inverse proportion to its global relevance. It is written in the spirit of John Robinson's 1963 Honest to God: "But the beginning is to try to be honest - and to go on from there." Brueggemann suggests that "the forceful claims of the Jerusalem e...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2015
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Old Testament essays
Year: 2015, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 189-191 |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | The slimness of this volume is in inverse proportion to its global relevance. It is written in the spirit of John Robinson's 1963 Honest to God: "But the beginning is to try to be honest - and to go on from there." Brueggemann suggests that "the forceful claims of the Jerusalem establishment" galvanised and made normative the conviction of being chosen for covenant - "an articulation of an ideology that would frame the life, faith, and imagination of the community and would consequently shape policy." In this way "the old traditions of chosenness are utilized to legitimate the socio-economic, political, liturgic claims of the Jerusalem establishment." Brueggemann uses the term ideology in the Marxian sense to refer to "false consciousness … a misconstrual of reality to serve particular interest." |
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| ISSN: | 2312-3621 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/EJC171684 |