scholarly journals Walter Brueggemann. Chosen?: Reading the Bible amid the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter A. Pettit
Keyword(s):  
The Bible ◽  
Walter Brueggemann

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scholarly journals Making sense of the COVID-19 pandemic from the Bible – Some perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francois Tolmie ◽  
Rian Venter
Keyword(s):  
Sense Making ◽  
Social Location ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
New Normal ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Crisis Discourse ◽  
Walter Brueggemann ◽  
Biblical Scholar

In this article, a brief survey of some of the ways in which biblical scholars try to make sense of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is offered. The views of the following scholars are discussed: Walter Brueggemann, Ying Zhang, John Goldingay and Kathleen Scott Goldingay, N.T. Wright, Philemon M. Chamburuka and Ishanesu S. Gusha, and Peter Lampe. This is followed by the reflections of a biblical scholar and a systematic theologian. From the perspective of a biblical scholar, the following issues are raised: the richness of biblical traditions, the influence of social location on the interpretation of the pandemic in the light of the Bible, the importance of the emphasis on lament, the reluctance to interpret the pandemic as a punishment from God, the importance of the interpreter’s view of God and the emphasis on the way in which the ‘new normal’ should be approached. From the perspective of a systematic theologian the following issues are discussed: The nature of doing theology, the role of the symbol of the Divine, performativity of sense-making, the Trinitarian confession, an emerging new self and the importance of an ethic of responsibility.Contribution: The article is a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and emphasises the critical importance of engaging the Christian scripture. The role accorded to hermeneutics and to an explicit interdisciplinary conversation makes a particular contribution to the emerging crisis discourse.

The Bible and Mission: A Response to Walter Brueggemann and Beverly Gaventa

1982 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 427-434
Author(s):  
Robert J. Schreiter
Keyword(s):  
Social Approach ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Walter Brueggemann

Here Professor Schreiter completes this interdisciplinary dialogue with a valuable and practical missiological response to these biblical scholars — to Brueggemann who used a social approach to reveal meanings in Scriptural texts and to Gaventa who used a literary approach — with his own semiotic approach which studies signs as bearers of meaning, probing the linguistic depths of a text, and stressing what the Bible can be for mission as well as in mission.

Phenomenologies of Scripture

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Theological Turn ◽  
Kevin Hart ◽  
Walter Brueggemann ◽  
Robert Sokolowski ◽  
Theological Turn In Phenomenology

This collection of essays by eminent phenomenologists and biblical scholars explores phenomenological approaches to the Bible. The specific goals of this collection are two-fold: first, it advances the recent “theological turn” in phenomenology by turning to scripture. Second, it resolves some of the philosophical and theological difficulties raised by modern biblical interpretation. More generally, the volume re-establishes a rapport between philosophy, theology, and biblical studies. Contributors include Jeffrey Bloechl, Walter Brueggemann, Jean-Louis Chrétien, Kevin Hart, Robyn Horner, Emmanuel Housset, Jean-Yves Lacoste, Jean-Luc Marion, Dale Martin, and Robert Sokolowski.

Hearing the Book of Judges: A Dialogue with Reviewers

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-50
Author(s):  
Lee Roy Martin
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Text ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Walter Brueggemann ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Book Of Judges

AbstractThis response to the reviews of Rickie D. Moore, Walter Brueggemann, and Robert Pope seeks to answer their questions regarding Pentecostal hermeneutics and to expand the conclusions of my book, The Unheard Voice of God. I gratefully acknowledge both the positive reception of my book and the collegial tone of the reviews. The response to Pope revolves around the role of Scripture in the lives of Pentecostals and elements of the Pentecostal approach to the Bible. I address Brueggemann's suggestion that I extend the results of my study to include the entire Deuteronomic History. Finally, a dialogue with Rickie Moore considers more closely the nature of 'hearing' the voice of God through the biblical text.

scholarly journals Líf í fyllstu gnægð. Trúarlegt framlag Frans páfa og Walters Brueggemann til samtímaumræðu um réttlæti og almannaheill

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
Sólveig Anna Bóasdóttir
Keyword(s):  
No Value ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Narratives ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Walter Brueggemann

Modern thought that situates faith and all religious interpretation in the private sphere assumes that it is best to keep religion and reason clearly separate. As a result of that, religion has little or no value in social discourse about justice and morality. The reasons for this view come from modernism, which holds religion either as a childish phenomenon, foolish, or at worst harmful to society. This article assumes a post-secular position in which the contribution of religion to social discourse on issues of justice and morality is both accepted and respected. Recent writings by two renowned theologians are taken as an example of this. Pope Francis and Walter Brueggemann address current world problems like poverty and climate change, demanding justice and fairness for the poor. Pope Francis urges that man-made economic systems of the world be transformed for the sake of humanity today and in the future. According to him these economies must meet human needs, promote human dignity, help the poor and get rid of the idolatry of money that creates a lot of suffering in the world. Brueggemann on the other hand, holds that now is an urgent time for neighborliness that will contradict our consumerism as well as our inordinate militarism. Referring to biblical narratives he holds that the most radical teaching in the Bible is that the haves are bound in neighborliness to the have-nots.

Is Creation Theology Inherently Conservative? A Dialogue with Walter Brueggemann

1994 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-277
Author(s):  
J. Richard Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Hebrew Scriptures ◽  
Creation Theology ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
Prophetic Voice ◽  
Walter Brueggemann ◽  
Significant Attention

Since his 1972 study of the wisdom literature of the Hebrew scriptures, provocatively entitledIn Man We Trust, Walter Brueggemann has challenged the settled verities of Christian communities of faith and the orthodoxies of biblical scholarship. In over two dozen books and numerous popular and academic articles on the texts and themes of the Hebrew scriptures, Brueggemann has explored and articulated his growing thesis that the Bible is a powerful, critical, and energizing resource for human and social transformation in our times. Concentrating on the prophetic corpus since his programmatic 1978 book,The Prophetic Imagination, as well as giving significant attention to the historical books and the psalter, Brueggemann himself has become an important prophetic voice, calling the contemporary church to fidelity to Yahweh's uncompromising claims as these are articulated in the Mosaic, covenantal, and prophetic traditions of the Hebrew scriptures.

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