In the last several years, Walter Brueggemann's writings have directly, addressed the situation of Christian communities in today's globalized context, with its consumerist lifestyles, vast inequalities, and near-imperial exercises of power. His insights, forged in rugged encounters with the texts of the Old Testament, are sharp, painful, and indispensable. In the People of Israel Brueggemann finds a model of an alternative community, anchored in YHWH, ever exploring new possibilities, and prophetically, bent against empire

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