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TitleThe Practice of prophetic imagination : Preaching an emancipatory word [electronic resource]
AuthorBrueggemann, Walter.
Call NoDTL 251 BRU
CollectionEbook
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International Standard Book Number 9781451419764
Dewey Decimal Classification Number DTL 251 BRU
Personal Name Brueggemann, Walter.
Title Statement The Practice of prophetic imagination : Preaching an emancipatory word [electronic resource]
Imprint Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2012.
Physical Description eBook
General Note Includes Index and Bibliographical References
Formatted Contents Note The narrative embedment of prophetic preaching -- Prophetic preaching as sustained, disciplined, emancipated imagination -- Loss imagined as divine judgment -- A lingering place of relinquishment -- The burst of newness amid waiting -- The continuing mandate.
Summary, Etc. The necessary context of prophetic preaching, Walter Brueggemann argues, is "a contestation between narratives": the dominant narrative of our time, which promoting self-sufficiency at the national level (through militarism) and the personal (through consumerism), and the countervailing narrative of a world claimed by a God who is gracious, uncompromising-and real.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term PREACHING.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term IMAGINATION - RELIGIOUS ASPECTS - CHRISTIANITY.
Electronic Location and Access http://thedtl.on.worldcat.org/oclc/822018917 DTL ePlatform Full text - Book opens through link in DTL DTL