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Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks is unavailable, but you can change that!

Walter Brueggemann is one of the most highly regarded Old Testament scholars of our time; talk-show host Krista Tippett has even called him “a kind of theological rock star.” In this new book Brueggemann probes the tasks performed by the ancient prophets of Israel and points out striking correlations between the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BCE and the catastrophic crisis of 9/11 in AD 2001. ...

The indictment is an opportunity to review all of the covenantal failures of the power structure. It will not surprise that the indictment basically concerns two matters, the abuse of neighbors, especially vulnerable neighbors, and the dishonoring of God. And of course those two go together as violation of the two commandments, love God and love neighbor. The urban elite, they assert, have not loved God. That refusal is evident in arrogance, pride, and self-indulgence, as they imagine they are the
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