An On-Going Imagination: A Conversation about Scripture, Faith, and the Thickness of Relationship

by Walter Brueggemann, Clover Reuter Beal, Timothy Beal (Editor)

Overview

Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann has always excelled at making the Bible approachable and engaging. Drawn from a series of public conversations with Brueggemann and his former student and longtime friend Clover Reuter Beal, An On-Going Imagination explores Brueggemanns most influential biblical-theological concepts and methods: Why should we still bother with the Bible today? What is the purpose of prayer, and what can it do for our lives? How is keeping the Sabbath countercultural? What does it mean to say that the God in the Bible is a God in recovery?

Intimate, provocative, and challenging, An On-Going Imagination offers an enlightening introduction to Brueggemanns work for readers who want to learn more and a way back into the Bible for people who feel alienated from it by those on the right and the left who claim to have it all figured out. Brueggemann and Beal reawaken us to the fascinating strangeness of biblical tradition and its incredible power to help us imagine new ways of seeing and being in the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780664264130
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date:	10/15/2019
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(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 the author of dozens of books, including Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now, Interrupting Silence: God's Command to Speak Out, and Truth and Hope: Essays for a Perilous Age.

Clover Reuter Beal is Colead Pastor of Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church in Denver, Colorado. Previously, she was Associate Pastor at Forest Hill Church, Presbyterian, in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and Dean of the Cleveland Ecumenical Institute for Religious Studies. Her passions circle around congregational leadership development, gift identification, vocational discernment, and spiritual formation.

Timothy Beal is the Florence Harkness Professor of Religion and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Case Western Reserve University. He has published fifteen books, including The Book of Revelation: A Biography for which he won a Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is married to Clover Reuter Beal.

Editorial Reviews

"This book is a good choice for readers seeking a descriptive lens on the practice of theology and ministry over a prescriptive lens. Brueggemann gives greater attention to theory and principle, enhancing his assessment of a topic or question with simple anecdotes and stories from his experiences." —Presbyterian Outlook

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