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The Threat of Life: Sermons on Pain, Power, and Weakness is unavailable, but you can change that!

These 22 sermons from a master interpreter demonstrate how ancient texts can speak to the whole gamut of human experience even now. Included in Walter Brueggemann’s preview are keen observations about the timeless issues of human life, both personal and social: the pain we face, often inflicted on each other; the use and abuse of power; the weakness and fragility of life; the redemptive power of...

the bonds of reasonable control and technical prediction. There is only the dance of faith that does not ask for explanation. From that moment on, Israel lives by the inexplicable that evokes gratitude. What Israel sees of God’s oddness is not craziness, but powerful faithfulness which can keep promises against all odds. Biblical faith is grounded in God’s capacity to keep promises. In that moment Israel comes to know everything that needs to be known about God and about the world and about us. We
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