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Drawing on specific texts that speak to cosmic hurt and personal possibility, Walter Brueggemann demonstrates the essential connection between faithful reading of the biblical text and faithful living in a world of banal, yet threatening values. He assesses the nature of obedience today in such areas as ministry, justice, the land, education, hospitality, and the contemporary imagination.
THE SUBSTANCE AND STRUCTURE of this book are an argument that liberated, imaginative interpretation and disciplined, committed obedience depend upon and require each other for faithfulness. Interpretation that seeks to let the old word be the live, authoritative word, if it is faithful to the material interpreted, must be an act of obedience. Obedient interpretation in the social context of the Western church is to see how the Bible authorizes, evokes, and permits a world that is an
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