Walter Brueggemann: 35 books
David and His Theologian
Literary, Social, and Theological Investigations of the Early Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Throughout Walter Brueggemann's career, he has repeatedly found his way back to the David and royal traditions. From some of his earliest articles and essays to monographs, commentaries, and sermons, he has explored this rich field in literary, social, and theological depth. As he has said, My preoccupation...
A Pathway of Interpretation
The Old Testament for Pastors and Students
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Writing with the pastor and student in mind, Walter Brueggemann provides guidance for interpreting Old Testament texts. He offers both advice for the interpreter as well as examples of working with different sorts of passages: from narratives, prophecies, and Psalms. He also demonstrates how to work...
Worship in Ancient Israel
An Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
In an engaging style--characteristic of the author, Walter Brueggemann--this Essential Guide describes the leading motifs of ancient Israel’s worship traditions in the Old Testament. The author guides the reader through the themes, central texts, prayers, festivals, and practices of that worship....
An Other Kingdom
Departing the Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are producing too many casualties. We need to depart a kingdom that creates isolation, polarized debate, an exhausted planet, and violence that comes with the will to empire. The abbreviation of this empire is called a consumer culture.
We...
by Walter Brueggemann
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
It was the center of learning, commerce, wealth, and religion. Devoted to materialism, extravagance, luxury, and the pursuit of sensual pleasure, it was a privileged society. But, there was also injustice, poverty, and oppression. It was the great and ancient Babylon—the center of the universe.
And...
The Word Militant
Preaching A Decentering Word
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Against the easy assurance of a too-enculturated religion, Walter Brueggemann refocuses the preaching task around the decentering, destabilizing, always risky Word that confronts us in Scripture – if we have the courage to hear.
by Walter Brueggemann
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2004
The purpose of this collection of Brueggemann's essays is to bring to the fore a much more extensive critical engagement on his part with the current discussion about the Old Testament, its character, its authority, its theology, and especially its God.... Readers of these essays who think they may...
Prophetic Imagination
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2001
In this challenging and enlightening treatment, Brueggemann traces the lines from the radical vision of Moses to the solidification of royal power in Solomon to the prophetic critique of that power with a new vision of freedom in the prophets. Here he traces the broad sweep from Exodus to Kings to...
Old Testament Theology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
In this first volume in the Library of Biblical Theology series, Walter Brueggemann portrays the key components in Israel's encounter with God as recorded in the Hebrew Bible. Creation, election, Torah, the divine hand in history; these and other theological high points appear both in their original...
Like Fire in the Bones
Listening For The Prophetic Word In Jeremiah
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
No scholar of this generation has had a greater fire in his bones for communicating the word of God than Walter Brueggemann. These essays on Jeremiah exemplify his insistence that criticism should lead to interpretation, and remind us again why prophets like Jeremiah still matter in the 21st century.
The Role of Old Testament Theology in Old Testament Interpretation
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
This collection of essays is drawn from a series of previous collections to which the author has contributed that were designed to honor senior scholars in the discipline of Old Testament study. Each of these essays reflects a distinct intention depending on the nature of the original collection in...
Praying the Psalms, Second Edition
Engaging Scripture and the Life of the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In this thoroughly revised edition of a classic in spirituality, Walter Brueggemann guides the reader into a thoughtful and moving encounter with the Psalms. This new edition includes a revised text, new notes, and new bibliography. The movement and meeting of God with us is indeed a speech-event...
A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament
2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This book has become a standard text in seminary and university classrooms. The purpose of this second edition is to help readers come to a critically informed understanding of the Old Testament as the church's scripture. This book introduces the Old Testament both as a witness of ancient Israel...
by Walter Brueggemann
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
In Prayers for a Privileged People, this much-published author sculpts—as carefully as if with chisel—prayers on behalf of those who are people of privilege and entitlement—the haves—at an urgent moment in our society. The privileged face, on the one hand, the seduction of denial or, on the...