The Practice of prophetic imagination : Preaching an emancipatory word

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... Full description

Main Author: Brueggemann, Walter.
Published: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2012
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245 0 |a The Practice of prophetic imagination :  |b Preaching an emancipatory word  |h [electronic resource] 
260 |a Minneapolis :  |b Fortress Press,  |c 2012. 
300 |a eBook 
500 |a Includes Index and Bibliographical References 
505 |a 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. 
520 |a 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. 
650 |a IMAGINATION - RELIGIOUS ASPECTS - CHRISTIANITY. 
650 |a PREACHING. 
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