Fetch Your Copy Tenacious Solidarity: Biblical Provocations On Race, Religion, Climate, And The Economy Assembled By Walter Brueggemann Formatted As Audiobook

Solidarity features essays and new writings fromto, As all of Walter Brueggemann's writing is, the chapters are deeply biblical while also concerned with the identities, practices, and obligations of religious communities in contemporary contexts within the United States.
Brueggemann consistently attempts to weave the biblical textsvested as they are with the authority of a storytellerinto the deep contours of his readers' experiences, in order to foster a tenacious solidarity that might overcome both the psychic numbness cultivated by ahour news cycle as well as the anxious possessiveness nurtured by so many privatized spiritualities.


Brueggemann brings the "transformative potential" of the biblical texts to bear on critical contemporary contexts, including but not limited to economic disparities, racial injustice and white supremacy, climate and care for creation, and the power of memory and mentoring.
He delves deeply in the Psalms, which he says, "provides a foundational script for living into the fullest and deepest realities of human existence.
" And he draws from the Prophets his foundational concept

of totalism, which he defines as "automated fragmentation of social life such that we habitually and callously disregard our relations with others.
" Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary, He is the worlds leading interpreter of the Old Testament and is the author of numerous books, including Westminster John Knox Press best sellers such as Genesis and First and Second Samuel in the Interpretation series, An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination, and Reverberations of Faith: A Theological Handbook of Old Testament Themes.
Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary, He is the world's leading interpreter of the Old Testament and is the author of numerous books, including Westminster John Knox Press best sellers such as Genesis and First and Second Samuel in the Interpretation series, An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination, and Reverberations of Faith: A Theological Handbook of Old Testament Themes.
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