Ancient Echoes: Refusing the Fear-Filled, Greed-Driven Toxicity of the Far Right

by Walter Brueggemann

Overview

In Ancient Echoes, Walter Brueggemann — one of our most influential biblical scholars — responds to eight "truth claims" made by the radical right in US politics.

In his book Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History (Random House 2020), Kurt Andersen enunciates eight "truth claims" made by the political right that champion aggressive self-sufficiency and self-security at the expense of the community. In the process, any hint of "the common good" among neighbors disappears from the scene.

Brueggemann responds to each of these mistaken "truth claims" through the witness of scripture and an insistence upon a common good — a neighborly practice of generosity, hospitality, forgiveness, justice, compassion, and mercy. The echoes of biblical faith reveal that these right wing "truth claims" contradict our long-running legacy of biblical faith.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506494968
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	05/16/2023
Pages:	132
Sales rank:	212,984
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is regarded as the premier Old Testament interpreter and biblical theologian of today. Among his many publications are Prophetic Imagination and Old Testament Theology.

Table of Contents

1. The Possibility of Good Governance

2. The Discomfiting Gift of Newness

3. Do Not Let the Doctor Leave You

4. Public Truth and Private Rumor

5. The Prophet and Profit

6. A Sufficiency Other than Our Own

7. Bread Shared with All the Eaters

8. Healing...without Money, without Price

9. Evil Geniuses: A Reprise

Editorial Reviews

In this powerful book Walter Brueggemann goes right after the sacred creeds of toxic right-wing politics, challenging each hollow affirmation with "ancient echoes," the vibrant counter-testimony of scripture. In Brueggemann's hands, the words of the Bible leap to life and provide razor-sharp alternative ways of thinking, believing, and living. Every rabbi and minister who hopes to free the pulpit to engage the culture with vigor should read this book. —Thomas G. Long, Bandy Professor Emeritus of Preaching, Candler School of Theology, Emory University

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