Resisting Denial Refusing Despair

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666715166
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resisting Denial, Refusing Despair written by Walter Brueggemann and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays constitutes an attempt to work faithfully at the generative interface of the Bible and our life in the world. This interface variously yields, in our attentiveness, assurances and summons and often empowerment for the work of faith. That work of faith is in our moment urgent, given the force of evil and violence among us, performed by willing thuggery, by dark money, and by the hidden manipulation of social power in hurtful ways. Given such social reality, it is Brueggemann's hope that these pieces may be a source of strength and support for those who resist and refuse those nefarious forces in our midst. Thus he intends that these pieces give voice to the assurance and summons of the gospel, so that we may be able to live differently in the world, differently in ways that are marked by forgiveness, generosity, and hospitality. Such living is in the face of great pressure toward scorekeeping, parsimony, and fearful exclusion. Such living is a way of joy and hope that is on offer nowhere else. It is Brueggemann's intent to contribute as he can to the "hopes that drive us onward," in resistance to "the fears that hold us back."

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 166671514X
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resisting Denial, Refusing Despair written by Walter Brueggemann and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays constitutes an attempt to work faithfully at the generative interface of the Bible and our life in the world. This interface variously yields, in our attentiveness, assurances and summons and often empowerment for the work of faith. That work of faith is in our moment urgent, given the force of evil and violence among us, performed by willing thuggery, by dark money, and by the hidden manipulation of social power in hurtful ways. Given such social reality, it is Brueggemann’s hope that these pieces may be a source of strength and support for those who resist and refuse those nefarious forces in our midst. Thus he intends that these pieces give voice to the assurance and summons of the gospel, so that we may be able to live differently in the world, differently in ways that are marked by forgiveness, generosity, and hospitality. Such living is in the face of great pressure toward scorekeeping, parsimony, and fearful exclusion. Such living is a way of joy and hope that is on offer nowhere else. It is Brueggemann’s intent to contribute as he can to the “hopes that drive us onward,” in resistance to “the fears that hold us back.”

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666715174
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Peculiar Dialect of Faith written by Walter Brueggemann and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblical utterance, in contrast to the sounds of power and certitude, offers imaginative probes into the mystery of God’s creation and into the hidden complexities of human hurt and human hope. Thus the dialect of the Bible is offered in relational terms, so that the key ingredients to lived reality characteristically concern justice and righteousness, steadfast love, faithfulness, and compassion. Insofar as the church relies upon and attests to this dialect, we may expect that in church we will speak in a different rhetoric, and consequently we will speak about different subject matter. To be sure, the church is sometimes seduced away from this relational dialect to speak in cadences that are elementally alien to the Bible and to the claims of the gospel. Such seduction of the church takes place, for example, when our nation is at war and the church is tempted to reflect and reiterate the force of that social reality. Or such seduction occurs when the church is captured by any ism, notably in our time, racism or nationalism. Or alternatively, ideological conservatism that craves the language of certitude or ideological liberalism that is easily bewitched by the rhetoric of psychology or the market. When the church is domesticated to such alien claims, it loses its distinctiveness, and consequently loses its nerve and its courage for serious mission. Thus attentiveness to our peculiar dialect is an important investment. —from the Preface

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 0800697944
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disruptive Grace written by Walter Brueggemann and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Brueggemann has been one of the leading voices in Hebrew Bible interpretation for decades; his landmark works in Old Testament theology have inspired and informed a generation of students, scholars, and preachers. These chapters gather his recent addresses and essays on every part of the Hebrew Bible, many of them never published before, bringing his erudition to bear on those practices—prophecy, lament, prayer, faithful imagination, and a holy economics—that alone may usher in a humane and peaceful future for our cities.

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666735167
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternative to the Bread of Affliction written by Walter Brueggemann and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents 1 Alternative to the Bread of Affliction 2 Preaching the Psalms 3 On Tenacious Parenting 4 The Litigation of Scarcity 5 Twin Themes for Ecumenical Singing: The Psalms 6 In the “Thou” Business: The Travail of Biblical Language . . . Again 7 Reaping the Whirlwind 8 The Poem: Subversion and Summons 9 The Impossible Possibility of Forgiveness 10 On Appearing before the Authorities 11 Getting Your Sibilants Right: The Evangelical Shibboleth 12 Do the Numbers 13 Awaiting the Verdict 14 At the Death of Peter Knauert: Peter amid Remembering and Hoping 15 Advantage McEnroe 16 What Does It Mean to Be Human? 17 When the Music Starts Again 18 The First Great Commandment 19 A Little Evangelical Geography 20 Toward Perfect Health 21 Peace: The Fruit of the Spirit 22 Three Key Moves toward White Extremism 23 A Retrospect

Author : Larry Axelrod
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772120812
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turning Conflict Into Profit written by Larry Axelrod and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2014-09-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflict in the workplace becomes expensive when an organization’s efficiency is damaged by friction between employees. Conflicts can threaten the profitability and innovation of business, the sustainability of public institutions, and the health and achievement of individuals. Faced with conflict most people either lean away, avoiding the issue, or charge right in, escalating the problem. Neither strategy is ultimately successful and the social and financial costs can be devastating. Drawing on principles of psychology and sociology, Larry Axelrod and Roy Johnson have developed a new alternative for workplace conflict resolution. Turning Conflict Into Profit explains how “leaning into conflict” not only defuses workplace tensions but releases blocked energy into positive channels of development. Written in plain language, with real-life examples, Turning Conflict Into Profit offers a practical and rewarding roadmap through conflict.

Author : LeAnn Snow Flesher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567418081
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why?... How Long? written by LeAnn Snow Flesher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is born out of two years of academic presentations on laments in the Biblical Hebrew Poetry Section at the Society of Biblical Literature (2006-2007). The topics of these papers are gathered around the theme of "voice." The two parts to this volume: 1) provide fresh readings of familiar texts as they are read through the lens of lamentation, and 2) deepen our understanding of Israel and God as lamenter and lamentee. In the second section the focus on topics such as Israel's "unbelieving faith" (i.e., strong accusations against the God on whom they have complete reliance and trust), the unrighteous lamenter, and God's acceptance and rejection of the people's lament(s), deepens our understanding of Israel's culture and practice of lamentation. The final essay notes how the expression of despair is in tension with the poetic devices that contain it.

Author : Moreen Anderson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349136638
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Capable Executive written by Moreen Anderson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-03-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the impact senior managers can have on organisations, surprisingly little is known about what makes them effective. This distinctive book is structured around the findings of the authors' eight year research programme into senior executive effectiveness. In all eleven Capabilities have been identified which cover how executives cope personally with their role, how they lead and influence others and build competitive organisations. Each Capability is used as a starting point to review the latest management thinking and practice as it applies to senior executives.

Author : Kathleen H. O'Connor,
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608334449
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lamentations and the Tears of the World written by Kathleen H. O'Connor, and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467440361
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reality, Grief, Hope written by Walter Brueggemann and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Brueggemann is one of the most highly regarded Old Testament scholars of our time; talk-show host Krista Tippett has even called him "a kind of theological rock star." In this new book Brueggemann incisively probes our society-in-crisis from the ground up. Pointing out striking correlations between the catastrophe of 9/11 and the destruction of ancient Jerusalem, Brueggemann shows how the prophetic biblical response to that crisis was truth-telling in the face of ideology, grief in the face of denial, and hope in the face of despair. He argues that the same prophetic responses are urgently required from us now if we are to escape the deathliness of denial and despair. Brueggemann’s Reality, Grief, Hope boldly confronts the dominant forces of our time, taking on principalities and powers that vie for our souls, and calls the church to courageous action.