Interpretation and obedience :from faithful reading to faithful living /Walter Brueggemann.

Name/Title

Interpretation and obedience :from faithful reading to faithful living /Walter Brueggemann.

Description

Third world of evangelical imagination -- Embarrassing footnote -- Legitimacy of sectarian hermeneutic : 2 Kings 18-19 -- Transformative potential of a public metaphor : Isaiah 37:21-29 -- Case for an alternative reading -- Canonization and contextualization -- Commandments and liberated, liberating bonding -- Transformative agenda of the pastoral office -- Monopoly and marginality in imagination -- God's faithful plan : a context for caring citizenship -- Land : fertility and justice -- Land and our urban appetites -- Welcoming the stranger -- Cosmic hurt/personal possibility : Jer. 4:23-28; Isa. 45:18-22; Luke 6:21-31. x, 325 pages ;22 cm

Book Details

Author

Brueggemann, Walter.

Place Published

City

Minneapolis

Publication Subjects

Bible.--Old Testament--Hermeneutics. Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc. Ethics in the Bible. Obedience--Biblical teaching. Christian ethics--Lutheran authors. Christian ethics--Lutheran authors.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00859120 Ethics in the Bible.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00915863 Hermeneutics.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00955492 Obedience--Biblical teaching.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01042708

Call No.

BS476 .B72 1991

ISBN

0800624785, 9780800624781

LCCN

90019231

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Carrier type: volumencrdacarrier Media type: unmediatednrdamedia Date: [1991] Publication Info: {copy}1991