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Preaching out of the book of Jeremiah presents natural problems and difficulties to pastors and ministers alike. Despite being one of the largest books in the Bible, Jeremiah is often overlooked in sermons and teaching. Taking on the task of making this challenging book more accessible to pastors and preachers, Brueggemann discusses each aspect of Jeremiah as source material for prophetic...

2. Jeremiah understands public history as an arena of God’s free activity. He posits an important tension between the realities of public life ruled by God and the appearances of public life shaped by institutional claims. That tension is most easily recognized in the famous temple sermon (chap. 7). The temple is claimed to be a vehicle for God’s presence in the world, but it is shown to be a fraudulent form of escape for the special interests that practice social oppression and then use the protected
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