Deep Memory Exuberant Hope
Deep Memory Exuberant Hope

Deep Memory Exuberant Hope

by Walter Brueggemann

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Pages 166
Publisher Augsburg Fortress Press
Published 2000
ISBN-13 9780800632373
These studies on a variety of biblical texts focus deftly on reading, listening to, and proclaiming the gospel in a broken, fragmented, and “post-Christendom” world. Brueggemann explores how these traditions have the potential to continually resonate in our contemporary communities and individual lives.

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In the first essay of this slim anthology (“Preaching as Sub-Version”), Brueggemann declares war on his enemies and lays out his presuppositions: Preaching is a peculiar, freighted, risky act each time we do it: entrusted with an irascible, elusive, polyvalent Subject and flying low under the dominant version with a subversive offer of another version to be embraced by subversives (p. 6). The third in a series, this collection of previously-published articles pulls together many of Brueggemann’s scattered thoughts on rhetoric and polishes them for preachers who want to grow in their understanding of contemporary OT theology. Where the series’ first two books deal with the theological implications of covenant (The Covenanted Self, 1999) and prophetic imagination (Texts That Linger, Words That Explode, 2000), this one challenges communicators not to give in to what Brueggemann calls the “Dominant Reality,” but instead to challenge it, boldly and biblically. As Brueggemann sees it, the Dominant Reality in contemporary Western culture is a cleverly constructed matrix of sophisticated violence and incessant repression. Disseminated through a calloused media and tolerated by a numbed believers, this Dominant Reality is taking a huge theological toll on both Church and synagogue. Brueggemann’s concern is that too many communicators have too little in their arsenals to repel it successfully. [Full Review]