The Prophetic Imagination
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Known as one of America’s best theologians and one of the world’s foremost scholars on the Old Testament, Walter Brueggemann has inspired young scholars and students and driven the discourse on theology with some of the biggest players in contemporary Bible scholarship.
In this challenging and enlightening treatment, Walter Brueggemann traces the lines from the radical vision of Moses to the solidification of royal power in Solomon to the prophetic critique of that power with a new vision of freedom in the prophets. Here he traces the broad sweep from Exodus to Kings to Jeremiah to Jesus. He highlights that the prophetic vision not only embraces the pain of the people but creates an energy and amazement based on the new thing that God is doing. In this new edition, Brueggemann has completely revised the text, updated the notes, and added a new preface.
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Key Features
- Provides essential Old Testament scholarship from one of the most prominent living scholars
- Contains a powerful message that prophecy is a crucial element in ministry
- Includes material perfect for pastors, professors, counselors, and Old Testament scholars
Contents
- The Alternative Community of Moses
- Royal Consciousness: Countering the Counterculture
- Prophetic Criticizing and the Embrace of Pathos
- Prophetic Energizing and the Emergence of Amazement
- Criticism and Pathos in Jesus of Nazareth
- Energizing and Amazement in Jesus of Nazareth
- A Note on the Practice of Ministry
- A Postscript on Practice
Product Details
- Title: The Prophetic Imagination
- Author: Walter Brueggemann
- Edition: Revised
- Publisher: Augsburg Fortress
- Publication Date: 2001
- Pages: 178
About Walter Brueggemann
Walter Brueggemann through his teaching, lecturing, and writing, has effectively demonstrated the significance of the Old Testament for our fractured world today. Recognized as the preeminent interpreter of the ancient texts in relation to questions posed by a variety of academic disciplines, he has shown the way toward a compelling understanding of the major components of the faith and life of ancient Israel, especially its Psalms, the prophets, and the narratives. His award-winning Theology of the Old Testament quickly became a foundational work in the field.
Brueggemann, who holds a ThD from Union Seminary, New York, and a PhD from St. Louis University, is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. He was previously professor of Old Testament at Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis. His many Fortress Press books, including The Threat of Life: Sermons on Pain, Power, and Weakness, exhibit a fecund combination of imaginative power, sound scholarship, and a passion of justice and redemption.
Top Highlights
“The contemporary American church is so largely enculturated to the American ethos of consumerism that it has little power to believe or to act.” (Page 1)
“The royal consciousness leads people to despair about the power to move toward new life. It is the task of prophetic imagination and ministry to bring people to engage the promise of newness that is at work in our history with God.” (Pages 59–60)
“The royal consciousness leads people to numbness, especially to numbness about death. It is the task of prophetic ministry and imagination to bring people to engage their experiences of suffering to death.” (Page 41)
“First, energy comes from the embrace of the inscrutable darkness” (Page 14)
“So my programmatic urging is that every act of a minister who would be prophetic is part of a way of evoking, forming, and reforming an alternative community.” (Page 4)
Reviews
4 ratings
Carl Thomas
5/17/2022
“The Practice of Prophetic Imagination” was written by Walter Brueggeman as an aid to the local preacher to help her relate to the prophets of the Old Testament. Brueggeman contends that the modern preacher is a scribe of the old prophets, articulating the ethics of the prophets for today’s people. At this point in his career, one has to wonder if Walter Brueggeman has to do any actual research to write a book or if he simply has to throw a collection of his notes into the air, assemble what has landed, and handed into the publisher. It would seem that there is some sort of vortex in his office that produces amazing work and this book is no exception.
Barry
1/28/2018
Im a second years Theology student so one would assume I would understand what the Author's point is.... However I am about 26 pages into the book and its very hard to focus and make sense of it all due to an absurdly amount of academic language and over use of jargon. I'll have to push through because its part of a book review assignment but I am highly agitated and frustrated by this Author. However I do like his work on the psalm. Its unlikely that I will ever open this book again after the semester has ended. 1 star.
Alexander C. Stewart
6/9/2017
Prophet_kevin
4/4/2014
