Ice Axes for Frozen Seas: A Biblical Theology of Provocation

ISBN-13: 9781481302180 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 430 str.

Walter Brueggemann; Davis Hankins

Opis

Endlessly cunning, elusive, and playful--the Bible consistently unsettles even as it assures. Walter Brueggemann reveals exactly how Scripture exposes the inadequacy of the assumptions and habits that shape our lives. He finds inside Israel's ancient poetry, prophecy, narrative, and legal covenants new words that create new peoples. In so doing this book provokes a theology of transformation--one that compels new social, economic, and political practices. Brueggemann's reading reveals that we are not fated to live a life of greed, anxiety, and violence, but instead can embrace a shared life of well-being grounded in an investment in the common good. Brueggemann shows the endless ways by which the Bible provokes new life for transformed peoples.

Spis treści

• Introduction by Davis Hankins
• Part 1: Poetic Cadences that Create Hope
• 1. Conflicted Human Agency
• 2. Conflicted Divine Agency
• 3. Misbegotten Hope
• 4. Poems vs. Memos
• 5. Biblical Language
• Part 2: Narrative Complexities that Challenge
• 6. Food Fight
• 7. Departure without Arrival
• 8. The Nightmare of Amnesia
• 9. The Antidote to Amnesia
• 10. Double Agency
• Part 3: Legal Covenants that Coalesce
• 11. From Narrative to Policy
• 12. The God Who Gives Rest
• 13. Covenantal Risks and Rewards
• Part 4: Imaginative Provocations that Compel
• 14. Testimony
• 15. Obedience
• 16. Slow Wisdom
• 17. Bail Out
• 18. Jubilee
• Retrospect