The Prophetic Imagination, Walter Brueggemann
The Prophetic Imagination, Walter Brueggemann
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The Prophetic Imagination
40th Anniversary Edition

Author: Walter Brueggemann

Narrator: Jim Denison

Unabridged: 5 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/09/2021

Synopsis

A classic book in biblical theology—still relevant for today and tomorrow.

In this fortieth anniversary edition of the classic book from one of the most influential biblical scholars of our time, Walter Brueggemann, offers a theological and ethical reading of the Hebrew Bible. He finds there a vision for the community of God whose words and practices of lament, protest and complain give rise to an alternative social order that opposes the "totalism" of the day.

Brueggemann traces the lines from the radical vision of Moses to the solidification of royal power in Solomon to the prophetic critique of that power with a new vision of freedom in the prophets. Linking Exodus to Kings to Jeremiah to Jesus, he argues that the prophetic vision not only embraces the pain of the people, but creates an energy and amazement based on the new thing that God is doing.

This edition builds off the revised and updated 2001 edition and includes a new afterword by Brueggemann and a new foreword by Davis Hankins.

About Walter Brueggemann

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, A Gospel of Hope, and Interrupting Silence: God's Command to Speak Out.

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Goodreads review by Erin on May 20, 2013

It is almost cliche to say that our world has been numbed into apathy about a great many things, spirituality included. If fact, I believe it would be fair to say that many Christians have found their faith to be drained of mysticism and imagination. Taught that mysticism is evil or somehow against......more

Goodreads review by Marty on January 14, 2022

This book will be headed straight for the "every student must read" list. The list is short and doesn't necessarily contain my personal favorite books, but the books that are so helpful, so resourceful, that I cant imagine being a serious student and not engaging it. I have seen this book on so many......more

Goodreads review by Ethan on April 22, 2025

This moral vision of the prophetic tradition being fully realized in the person of Christ is one of the reasons I continue to find myself a Christian these days. It's hard to walk away from a passion and vision so beautiful that it seems that it couldn't be false. Tremendous book as relevant now (pe......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on March 21, 2008

Reading this book was the first time I began to understand the Old Testament (or the Hebrew Scriptures). Brueggemann posits that a prophets job is to critizice, to point out the areas where a religious community is acting in opposition to God's principles, and energize, to encourage the community to......more

Goodreads review by Adam on January 18, 2010

I had a lot of trouble with this book. I wanted to like it given how many people in so many corners have commended it to me. And there is true insight here, but I feel those insights are concealed by a theological project that cannot be maintained. Suffice it to say that when I read the prophets I d......more

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