The Covenanted Self
Author | : Walter Brueggemann |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1999-08-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781451419566 |
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These exciting studies on the first five books of the Bible cover a wide range of topics, challenging the reader to confront the issues of faithfulness, responsibility, and justice in an ever-changing world. Brueggemann sets the issues of praise and lament, grace and duty, truth and power in new frames of reference that call for a response. He demonstrates that the Christian reader of the Bible cannot blithely pass over the Pentateuch as simply pre-Christian and without relevance. His creative use of metaphor and imagination invite the reader to encounter freshly in these biblical texts God's call and the work of justice.