The practice of prophetic imagination : preaching an emancipatory word
(2012)
Nonfiction
eBook
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Fortress Press, 2012
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1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781451419764 (electronic bk.) MWT14315708, 1451419767 (electronic bk.) 14315708
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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. In previous work, Brueggemann has pointed us again and again to the indispensability of imagination. Here he writes for those who bear responsibility for regular proclamation in communities of faith, describing the discipline of a prophetic imagination that is unflinchingly realistic and unwaveringly candid
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