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Hopeful Imagination: Prophetic Voices in Exile is unavailable, but you can change that!

Professor Brueggemann here examines the literature and experience of an era in which Israel’s prophets faced the pastoral responsibility of helping people to enter into exile, to be in exile, and to depart out of exile. He addresses three major prophetic traditions: Jeremiah (the pathos of God), Ezekiel (the holiness of God), and 2 Isaiah (the newness of God). This literature is seen to contain...

so for those in ministry who tend to have God become an agent and function of the church. The urge to press God toward our need is likely to become even more pronounced when we are caught in anxiety about survival, either of church or social institution or cultural value. In Ezekiel, God is not for us as much as God is for God’s self. God refuses to stay where God is not honored (8:6). In our culture, however, such a faith feels either like an unnecessary luxury or an outmoded notion. We build low-roofed
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