Remember You Are Dust

by Walter Brueggemann, K C Hanson (Editor)

Overview

"Second volume of Walter Brueggemann's collected articles from Journal of [i.e. for] Preachers"--Foreword.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610975353
Publisher:	Cascade Books
Publication date:	06/15/2012
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. He is past President of the Society of Biblical Literature and the author of numerous books, including Truth-Telling as Subversive Obedience, David and His Theologian, Praying the Psalms, A Pathway of Interpretation, and Ichabod toward Home.

Table of Contents

Foreword K. C. Hanson vii

Preface ix

1 The Last Enemy Is Death 1

2 Praise to God Is the End of Wisdom-What is the Begining? 12

3 The "Turn" from Self to God 29

4 Cadences that Redescribe: Speech among Exiles 40

5 The Secret of Survival 54

6 To Whom Does the Land Belong? 64

7 Remember You Are Dust 77

Bibliography 91

Index of Scripture 95

Index of Names 99

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Walter Brueggemann is the master of finding fresh and compelling dimensions of meaning in texts so familiar they barely scratch the surface of our consciousness. In this exciting collection, Brueggemann finds that when we admit we are dust, we can be liberated. Why? Because we are free from acting like God. We are free to choose obedience to the one living, true Sovereign. The idols lose their grip on us and we live faithfully and in authentic joy."
—Ronald J. Allen, Christian Theological Seminary

"According to Walter Brueggemann, the autonomy, secularity, and individualism that characterize modernity have 'exiled' the contemporary believer. Always concerned with the manner in which one is to live in the world, he argues for a subversive imagination similar to that found in the biblical wisdom writings, the Psalms, and the Prophets. One comes away from this book both energized by the vision presented and challenged to make it a reality."
—Dianne Bergant, Catholic Theological Union in Chicago

"There is a reason why Walter Brueggemann remains, for preachers and pastors, the most loved and trusted of all biblical scholars—and that is simply because he writes for us. In every season and heartbreak of life and ministry, he writes for us. And over the years, we have come to see that when Brueggemann goes to the text before God, with his signature passion, candor, and ferocious energy, he goes not for our enlightenment or edification, but for our life and for his. Read this book and take off your shoes, because you will enter onto holy ground."
—Anna Carter Florence, Columbia Theological Seminary

Editorial Reviews

"Walter Brueggemann is the master of finding fresh and compelling dimensions of meaning in texts so familiar they barely scratch the surface of our consciousness. In this exciting collection, Brueggemann finds that when we admit we are dust, we can be liberated. Why? Because we are free from acting like God. We are free to choose obedience to the one living, true Sovereign. The idols lose their grip on us and we live faithfully and in authentic joy."
—Ronald J. Allen, Christian Theological Seminary

"According to Walter Brueggemann, the autonomy, secularity, and individualism that characterize modernity have 'exiled' the contemporary believer. Always concerned with the manner in which one is to live in the world, he argues for a subversive imagination similar to that found in the biblical wisdom writings, the Psalms, and the Prophets. One comes away from this book both energized by the vision presented and challenged to make it a reality."
—Dianne Bergant, Catholic Theological Union in Chicago

"There is a reason why Walter Brueggemann remains, for preachers and pastors, the most loved and trusted of all biblical scholars—and that is simply because he writes for us. In every season and heartbreak of life and ministry, he writes for us. And over the years, we have come to see that when Brueggemann goes to the text before God, with his signature passion, candor, and ferocious energy, he goes not for our enlightenment or edification, but for our life and for his. Read this book and take off your shoes, because you will enter onto holy ground."
—Anna Carter Florence, Columbia Theological Seminary

From the Publisher