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Original Title:	The Prophetic Imagination
ISBN:	0800632877 (ISBN13: 9780800632878)
Edition Language:	English

The Prophetic Imagination Paperback | Pages: 151 pages

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It is almost cliche to say that our world has been numbed into apathy about a great many things, spirituality included. If fact, I believe it would be fair to say that many Christians have found their faith to be drained of mysticism and imagination. Taught that mysticism is evil or somehow against the Bible (untrue), evangelicals exhibit the same kind of legalism we point out in others. Services become a matter of "stand, sit, pray, sit, stand, [perhaps raise hands], sit, stand, listen to preacher and study the word like a textbook". My take could sound a bit harsh, but perhaps the urgency of needing new hope, a new language of hope, a new prophetic voice of compassion in a world that allows apathy to endure legalism is the better point I'm trying to make. Brueggeman opens wide the doors of heart, mind, body and soul so that believers can accept new breath from God into their lives. Challenging the dominant culture, he pokes into places taboo and pries into our social conscious an unconscious to become a true holy irritant.

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Title	:	The Prophetic Imagination
Author	:	Walter Brueggemann
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Second Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 151 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2001 by Fortress Press (first published 1978)
Categories	:	Religion. Theology. Nonfiction. Spirituality. Christianity. Christian

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Motivating and inspiringMost pastors don't clearly make the connection between the prophetic task and their work. At least I didn't. This book helped me draw a direct connection from Moses to Jeremiah to Jesus. Then motivated me to identify with the marginalized as we seek to express grief as a means to embody joy.

Walter Bruggemann's classic on the nature of the prophetic imagination is a must read for any preacher and really, just anyone interested in reading of the Bible. His main insight is looking at Moses as the prototypical prophet, whose prophetic work expose structures of oppression (Egypt) but - and this is important - offered a counter-vision of community. This counters the tenancy to see the prophetic office as mere doom preachers and cynical critics. Prophesy is constructive. Prophesy counters

I don't think I can summarize this book better than the author can. He discussed the purpose of prophecy in the Bible and how it still applies now: "On the one hand, Jeremiah practices the radical criticism against the royal consciousness. He does this essentially by conjuring a funeral and bringing the grief of dying Israel to public expression. He does this to penetrate then umb denial of the royal community, which pretended that things must go on forever. On the other hand, Second Isaiah

It is almost cliche to say that our world has been numbed into apathy about a great many things, spirituality included. If fact, I believe it would be fair to say that many Christians have found their faith to be drained of mysticism and imagination. Taught that mysticism is evil or somehow against the Bible (untrue), evangelicals exhibit the same kind of legalism we point out in others. Services become a matter of "stand, sit, pray, sit, stand, [perhaps raise hands], sit, stand, listen to

Walter Brueggemann's The Prophetic Imagination provides a crucial interpretative lens and theoretical framework from OT (Moses, Kings David vs. Solomon, Jeremiah, and Isaiah) to NT (Jesus) in order to renew the prophetic tradition of lamentation (present) and praise (future), from Biblical to contemporary poetry and prose, as actual breakthrough and com-passion and non-violent resistance against the obdurate predominance of the authorities, oppressors, policymakers, and powerful as evidenced in



This is an important read for those who care about both thoeology and art.