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The Practice of Prophetic Imagination: Preaching an Emancipating Word is unavailable, but you can change that!

Walter Brueggemann declares that the necessary character of truly prophetic preaching today is “a contestation between narratives.” If the dominant narrative of our time promotes national self-sufficiency (through militarism) and personal self-sufficiency (through consumerism), it must be opposed by a different narrative. Prophetic preaching takes its stand in a world claimed by a God who is...

• There is a remembered construal of reality that is the baseline offered, for example, in the “credo” of Deuteronomy 26. That remembered construal exhibits YHWH in all of YHWH’s elusive, irascible freedom that refuses to submit to royal consciousness. • There is an ancient contemporary construal of reality by the prophets that is funded by that remembered construal of reality. • And then, belatedly, we may imagine ourselves, as prophetic preachers, offering yet another layer of imagination. There
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