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Old Testament Theology: Essays on Structure, Theme, and Text is unavailable, but you can change that!

In these essays, Walter Brueggemann addresses the necessity for thinking about the shape and structure of Old Testament theology—and for the impact such thinking can have on the larger issues of contemporary life. Brueggemann draws on the work of persons from all disciplines and incorporates them in a seminal way in his theology. The work of persons in theology, psychology, the social sciences,...

d. Insofar as this faith makes claims beyond the fray of experience, it offers to the faithful community a normative standing place that may not be derived from the common theology but that articulates a normative truth about God not subject to the processes of the articulation. I understand this point to be implied in the canonical position of Childs. e. A careful understanding of the literature shows that we are not free to resolve the tension. The Old Testament both partakes of the common theology
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