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TRUTH SPEAKS TO POWER: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture

by Walter Brueggemann, Walter

2020-12-29 17:31:50

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World-renowned biblical interpreter Walter Brueggemann invites readers to take a closer look at the subversive messages found within the Old Testament. Brueggemann asserts that the Bible presents a sustained contestation over truth, in which establis... Read more
World-renowned biblical interpreter Walter Brueggemann invites readers to take a closer look at the subversive messages found within the Old Testament. Brueggemann asserts that the Bible presents a sustained contestation over truth, in which established institutions of power do not always prevail. But this is not always obvious at first glance. A closer look reveals that the text actually contradicts the apparent meaning of an innocent, face-value reading. Brueggemann invites the reader into this thick complexity of the textual reading, where the authority of power is undermined in cunning and compelling ways. He insists that we are—as readers and interpreters—always contestants for truth, whether we recognize ourselves as such or not. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.5 in
Publisher1517 Media (Augsburg Fortress)
Publication date March 1, 2013
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780664239145
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Walter Brueggemann
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Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, and the author of numerous books including, from Fortress P...

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