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eBook-Inscribing the Text: Sermons and Prayers of Walter Brueggemann

eBook-Inscribing the Text: Sermons and Prayers of Walter BrueggemanneBook-Inscribing the Text: Sermons and Prayers of Walter Brueggemann

eBook-Inscribing the Text: Sermons and Prayers of Walter Brueggemann

by Walter Brueggemann (Author)

"This volume contains the most recent collection of Walter Brueggemann's sermons and prayers. That would be notable in itself: another dazzling set of words from a man whose sheer energy and creativity make us wonder if he is climbing Sinai every morning, for dictation. Yet this book is more than a collection....

"Students and readers of Brueggemann will hear cadences of familiar themes: in the scribe, we hear poet and prophet, testimony and resistance, truth and power, exile and captivity....

"The sermons and prayers of this particular scribe...will linger to re-text and re-ignite another generation of preachers."
— from the Foreword by Anna Carter Florence

  • Publisher Fortress Press
  • Format eBook
  • ISBN 9781451419634
  • Publication Date May 24, 2011

Endorsements

''These sermons and poetic prayers are lucid and passionate, tough-minded and tender-hearted, full of the hope and biblical insights so critically needed in these nightmarish times.''
— William Sloane Coffin, pastor, author, activist

''Walter Brueggemann, exegete, hermeneutist, contemporary prophet, priest, and preacher, has for decades shared rich insights about the meaning of the biblical text. Now we can sample his challenging sermons, which show us how to speak truth to power and profound hope to all. Our preaching will be clearer, more honest, and more fruitful as we are tutored by his homiletic genius and prophetic zeal.''
— James A. Forbes Jr., Senior Minister, Riverside Church, New York

''In this wonderful collection of sermons and prayers, we are privileged to hear [Brueggemann] fight with, be surprised by, playfully delight in, and finally be subdued by scripture. And when he gets down and dirty in prayer, what a conversation to overhear!''
— William H. Willimon, Dean of the Chapel and Professor of Christian Ministry, Duke University

"Inscribing the Text unveils a surprising new model for preaching, that of the Preacher-Scribe, who discovers the power in the text, releases it, and then gets out of its way. Brueggemann's sermons bristle with the man who preaches them. More importantly, they let the Scripture speak with authority. This is vintage Brueggemann."
— Richard Lischer, James T. and Alice Mead Cleland Professor of Preaching, Duke Divinity School

Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword

Acknowledgments

On Generosity

The Preacher as Scribe

On Reading the Old Testament

Waiting in Central Casting

On Reading Psalm 1

On Signal: Breaking the Vicious Cycles

On Reading Psalm 116

Strategies for Humanness

On Reading Psalm 104

On People Who Do "Great Things"

On Reading Psalms 50, 88, 109

Uttered beyond Fear

On Reading Genesis 12-25
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