Finally Comes the Poet: Daring Speech for Proclamation

Finally Comes the Poet: Daring Speech for Proclamation

by Walter Brueggemann
ISBN-10:
0800623940
ISBN-13:
9780800623944
Pub. Date:
01/01/1989
Publisher:
1517 Media
ISBN-10:
0800623940
ISBN-13:
9780800623944
Pub. Date:
01/01/1989
Publisher:
1517 Media
Finally Comes the Poet: Daring Speech for Proclamation

Finally Comes the Poet: Daring Speech for Proclamation

by Walter Brueggemann
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Overview

The Christian gospel, says Brueggemann, is too easily preached and heard. Too often technical reason and excessive religious certitude reduce the gospel to coercive, debilitating pietisms that mask the text's meaning and freeze the hearers heart.

With skill and imagination, Brueggemann demonstrates how the preacher can engage in daring speech-differently voiced and therefore differently heard. This speech, as suggested by the Bible itself, is "poetic" speech, enabling the preacher to forge communion in the midst of alienation, bring healing out of guilt, and empower the hearer for "missional imagination." As an alternative to theological/homiletical discourse that is moralistic, pietistic or scholastic, Brueggemann proposes preaching that is artistic, poetic, and dramatic. The basis for the 1989 Lyman Beecher Lectures at Yale Divinity School, Finally Comes the Poet is a unique and transforming guide for powerful preaching.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780800623944
Publisher: 1517 Media
Publication date: 01/01/1989
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 184
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(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.

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