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Title: Struggling With Scripture by Walter Brueggemann, William C. Placher, Brian K. Blount ISBN: 0-664-22485-7 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One Struggle we all have in Common!
Comment: When we chose Prof Bruegge's books to give away as Christmas gifts, one of those was Struggling with Scripture. It brings out one of his personal beginnings in the confirmation service by his Father. At that point he is given the Psalm verse, 119:105: "Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light to my path." In his recorded memory, our good Professor says: "He did in that act more than he knew. Providentially, I have no doubt he marked my life by this Book that would be lamp and light..."
From his long and intimately personal love for the Psalms, he touches upon his early church tradition of "simple, irenic piety from the past..." One of those few pages in Bruegge's writings that he piles up both adjectives and adverbs like, "seemingly, utterly beyond me in its richness, concretely in my hands and unprecedented generativity!" When he comes out with creative linguistics and adds the emotion of his spoken words, it is enough to take you back into time and forward into what will surely follow...In his rapidly moving train of thought!
He touches Biblical Authority through the avenures of Inherency, Interpretation, Imagination, Ideology and Inspiration. In one of his first classes at Columbia Seminary when I was present he used these five huge words beginning with I's. That immediately hooked me into signing on for his Survey of Old Testament and next his Theology of the Old Testament.
Brueggemann's first Chapter lives up to the Preface comments by William Sloan Coffin...where he introduces Prof Blount and then Prof Placher and finally in more detail Prof Bruegge. I cannot say enough good things about this little gem of three chapters and delightful preface of Bill Coffin's. When you have heard these two similarly dramatic speakers then you surely will want to digest their magically miraculous, wondrous descriptive words. Gratefully, Retired Chaplain Fred W Hood
Rating: 5
Summary: Breath of fresh air
Comment: This is a good read, I would not suggest is a quick read. The authors are biblical scholars in their right (Brueggmann, Placher and Blount) and they give the reader food for thought. The book will challenge your thinking and maybe the way you look at the world. Don't read it if you are not honest with your struggle.
Rating: 5
Summary: Breath of fresh air
Comment: This is an excellent, short book. The authors have made it an easy read and it has a lot of food for thought. If you want to expand and challenge your mind, then this is a book for you. I would not recommend this book to anyone who does not want to be challenged or is not honest with their faith journey.
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Title: Reverberations of Faith: A Theological Handbook of Old Testament Themes by Walter Brueggemann ISBN: 0664222315 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination by Walter Brueggemann ISBN: 0664224121 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann by Walter Brueggemann, Edwin Searcy ISBN: 0800634608 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Spirituality of the Psalms (Facets) by Walter Brueggemann ISBN: 0800634500 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: Texts That Linger, Words That Explode: Listening to Prophetic Voices by Walter Brueggemann, Patrick D. Miller ISBN: 0800632311 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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