Old Words for a New World

Brueggemann moves between a description of the reality that appears in front of the church and the alternative that God is preparing for God's people that begins now and moves into God's eschatological future. In so doing, Brueggemann seeks to unleash the power of God's words to create a new world--here and now.|<p>Walter Brueggemann has been so effective for so long precisely because he has consistently called upon the church to see beyond the taken-for-granted realities it confronts by imagining God's alternative reality; to recognize that the bars of its entrapment were social constructs and could just as easily be deconstructed so we could be once again enchanted by God's good news.</p>

<p>To challenge the taken-for-granted reality of the church and to imagine an alternative reality, Brueggemann consistently takes us back to the biblical text. He moves between a description of the reality that appears in front of the church and the alternative that God is preparing for God's people that begins now and moves into God's eschatological future. In so doing Brueggemann seeks to unleash the power of God's words to create a new world--here and now.</p>|<p>Walter Brueggemann has been so effective for so long precisely because he has consistently called upon the church to see beyond the taken-for-granted realities it confronts by imagining God's alternative reality; to recognize that the bars of its entrapment were social constructs and could just as easily be deconstructed so we could be once again enchanted by God's good news.</p> <p>To challenge the taken-for-granted reality of the church and to imagine an alternative reality, Brueggemann consistently takes us back to the biblical text. He moves between a description of the reality that appears in front of the church and the alternative that God is preparing for God's people that begins now and moves into God's eschatological future. In so doing Brueggemann seeks to unleash the power of God's words to create a new world--here and now.</p>|<p>Part I</p> <p>New Community</p> <p>1. Music-Making Counter-Community</p> <p>2. History is Clay</p> <p>3. The Dangerous Arson of a Bramble</p> <p></p> <p>Part II</p> <p>New Governance</p> <p>4. Beyond the Governor's Illusion*</p> <p>5. Essential Components of a Government?</p> <p>6. Rescinding Absolutes</p> <p>7. The Strange Work of Sons-in-Law</p> <p></p> <p>Part III</p> <p>New Worship</p> <p>8. Intimacy Beyond Scholasticism</p> <p>9. The God of the Other</p> <p>10. The Empowering, Illuminating Word from Elsewhere</p> <p></p> <p>Part IV</p> <p>New Economy</p> <p>11. Let's Do the Numbers</p> <p>12. Money Talk in the Church</p> <p>13. The Unending Work of Contradiction</p> <p></p> <p>Part V</p> <p>New Earth</p> <p><i>14. </i>Tractor--Icon of Predatory Development</p> <p>15. Trees: Signals of Hope and Defiance</p> <p>16. Mapping</p> <p></p> <p>Part VI</p> <p>New Heaven</p> <p>17. When Water does not Win</p> <p>18. The End of Imagination?</p> <p>19. Written Up, Written Down</p> <p>20. Originalism</p> <p>21. Unshakeable Systems</p>