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Title: The Land: Place As Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith (OVERTURES TO BIBLICAL THEOLOGY) by Walter Brueggemann ISBN: 0-8006-3462-4 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Discovering New Dimensions of the Biblical Text
Comment: Almost always bibliographies for rural ministry include Brueggemann's "The Land." After reading the book, I don't understand why. Brueggemann's observations appear applicable to urban and suburban as well as rural ministries. (Granted, I read an earlier edition of the book. Perhaps, a later edition would clear my confusion.) Brueggemann's insight is in biblical theology, not a particular subset of Christian ministry.
Brueggemann uses "the land" as a category of interpretation from Genesis to the ends of the New Testament. Granted, the scope of the book is ambitious, but Brueggemann does a commendable job. I was particularly intrigued in seeing connections between the land as gift, Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, and Paul's teaching on grace. Brueggemann's method helps us overcome blind spots in traditional interpretation. Nonetheless, I would not suggest jettisoning more familiar ways of looking at Scripture in favor of "the land." As one who reads the Old Testament through the New, I would have appreciated more emphasis on Christology, Soteriology and their relation to the land. Still, there is plenty of food for thought.
Some practical observations. The book is dense. Anyone with merely a cursory knowledge of the Old Testament will find the book a slow read. Moreover, I recommend reading the last chapters first. They lay out where Brueggemann's interpretation is going.
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Title: Whose Land? Whose Promise?: What Christians Are Not Being Told About Israel and the Palestinians by Gary M. Burge ISBN: 0829815457 Publisher: Pilgrim Pr Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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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: 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: The Meal Jesus Gave Us by N. T. Wright, Tom Wright ISBN: 0664226345 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann ISBN: 0800632877 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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