The Practice of Prophetic Imagination: Preaching an Emancipating Word (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Practice of Prophetic Imagination 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, uncompromisingand real. In previous work Brueggemann has po
Full description- Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.
- Published: 26 March 2012
- Format: Hardback 192 pages
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- Categories: Biblical Studies & Exegesis | Christian Ministry & Pastoral Activity
- ISBN 13: 9780800698973 ISBN 10: 0800698975
- Sales rank: 61,792
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Full description for The Practice of Prophetic Imagination
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, uncompromisingand 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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