Walter Brueggemann, The Practice of Prophetic Imagination: Preaching an Emancipating Word

Theology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 116 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-131
Author(s):  
Walter J. Houston
Keyword(s):  
Prophetic Imagination ◽  
Walter Brueggemann

Walter Brueggemann, Prophetic Imagination, and the Productive Science of Homiletics

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-181
Author(s):  
Derek Knoke
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
The World ◽  
Prophetic Imagination ◽  
Walter Brueggemann ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Church

This review asks to what degree Walter Brueggemann locates biblical interpretation within homiletics, particularly where homiletics is defined as a ‘productive science’ – the goal of which is to make or create something. To the degree this is true, biblical interpretation is not determined by an a priori referent, whether that referent be a closed rationality of social scientific description (or historical reconstruction) or whether that referent be a resistant theological ideology which one imposes on the text. Rather, such a hermeneutic – a productive hermeneutic – would be determined by a desired goal or outcome. Homiletics, thus defined, is a means to an end – an end achieved by naming God as an acting subject in the world to bring about said goal or outcome. This review suggests that Brueggemann’s biblical interpretation can be described in this way and that a productive hermeneutic may be both social scientifically viable and beneficial for the church.

The Practice of Prophetic Imagination: A Response to Walter Brueggemann

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-176
Author(s):  
James B. Shelton
Keyword(s):  
Prophetic Imagination ◽  
Walter Brueggemann ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Hebrew Prophets

In The Practice of the Prophetic Imagination, Walter Brueggemann presents the case and guidelines for proclaiming the message of the Hebrew prophets in contemporary situations. He critiques defective epistemologies that shout down the voice of God such as those subscribing to an ‘irrelevant transcendence or a cozy immanence’. For Brueggemann, the prophets address two major realms: royal presumption and Canaanite religion and culture. He addresses contemporary issues that call for critique in contemporary preaching.

A Grateful Response Among Pentecostals

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-186
Author(s):  
Walter Brueggemann
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Prophetic Imagination ◽  
Walter Brueggemann

Walter Brueggemann offers an engaging response to four reviews of his The Practice of Prophetic Imagination: Preaching an Emancipatory Word.1 Brueggemann observes that the major note that is struck in the four reviews is the extent to which his book on the practice of prophetic imagination can be effectively and gainfully situated in a stance of Pentecostal interpretation. He values the ecumenical gains of our reaching across conventional traditions of interpretation to find common ground.

Prophecies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Harpers Ferry ◽  
John Brown ◽  
Prophetic Imagination ◽  
Southern Nationalism

Focusing on Edmund Ruffin, this chapter interprets the prophecies of secessionists. During a national craze for John Brown relics after the Harpers Ferry raid, Edmund Ruffin circulated Brown’s pikes to each southern legislature or governor to promote southern nationalism and secession. This chapter inverts memory studies to interpret how antebellum novels by Ruffin, John B. Jones, and Beverley Tucker forecasted civil war and elevated white supremacy. The prophetic imagination of secessionists like Ruffin empowered masters at the expense of women, yeomen, and slaves. By identifying themselves as conservative prophets rebelling against modern transgressions of timeless laws, southern nationalists adopted a historical consciousness that predicted a looming revolution to restore order and harmony. Their prophecies imagined bloodshed and destruction that exceeded the actual war and echoed earlier revolutions, particularly the American, French, and Haitian.

Prophetic Imagination and Empire in Asia

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-116
Author(s):  
Jude Lal Fernando
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Prophetic Imagination ◽  
Twenty First Century

The aim of this article is to identify the glimpses of prophetic imagination amongst the Christian communities in Asia, particularly in Korea and Japan, who are engaged in resisting the new round of militarization in the twenty-first century. This resistance denounces the globalist security complex in the region and announces a nonmilitaristic alternative forming a praxis that is necessary for a new theology of peace in East Asia and in Asia broadly. The political reality of the new round of military empire-building will be discussed with a personal narrative and a political analysis after which the theological meaning of prophetic imagination as opposed to imperial consciousness will be analyzed, correlating the personal and political with the theological. The ways in which the resistance to militarization resonates with the prophetic imagination of an alternative consciousness and community will be examined through an analysis of memories and renunciation of war by the churches. Broad implications of these resonances for a peace theology in Asia will be identified.

Theological Politics and the Davidic Monarchy: Three Examples of Theological Exegesis

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-162
Author(s):  
Michael Allen
Keyword(s):  
Karl Barth ◽  
Divine Action ◽  
Divine Judgment ◽  
Scriptural Exegesis ◽  
Walter Brueggemann ◽  
Davidic Monarchy ◽  
Theological Politics ◽  
The Way

AbstractKarl Barth, Oliver O'Donovan, and Walter Brueggemann explicitly link their constructive political projects to extensive Scriptural exegesis. I will investigate their different readings of the Davidic monarchy within the life of Israel as a means by which to exposit and critique their respective accounts of centralized governmental authority. Along the way, three important judgments will be suggested from their theological exegesis for the task of theological politics: the analogical subordination of human government to divine judgment, an encouragement of prophetic counter-politics to ward off imperial idolatry, and affirmation of a positive creaturely witness to divine action.

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