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The Prophetic Imagination, 40th Anniversary Edition

Walter Brueggemann

A classic text in biblical theology--still relevant for today and tomorrow. In this 40th anniversary edition of the classic text from one of the most influential biblical scholars of our time, Walter Brueggemann, offers a theological and ethical reading of the Hebrew Bible. He finds there a vision...

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On Being with Krista Tippett

It was described as a fallback position and a book that the speaker still found relevant and insightful, even years later. The book's exploration of prophetic imagination was mentioned as a source of continued inspiration and reflection.

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I mean, there is a sense in which everything you've done since then builds on that.

— Episode: Walter Brueggemann — The Prophetic Imagi...

Episode: Walter Brueggemann — The Prophetic Imagination

It was described as a fallback position and a book that the speaker still found relevant and insightful, even years later. The book's exploration of prophetic imagination was mentioned as a source of continued inspiration and reflection.

"

I mean, there is a sense in which everything you've done since then builds on that.

And I mean, so your book, The Prophetic Imagination continues to be such an important book. I think it's probably my fallback position. And sometimes I look at it now and I think either, gee, I already saw that then, or I think, wow, I haven't moved at all.

Our consumer culture is organized against history. There is a deprecation of memory and a ridicule of hope which means everything must be held in the now, either an urgent now or an eternal now.

Episode: [Unedited] Walter Brueggemann with Krista Tippett

It was described as an important book, a fallback position for the author, who felt that everything he'd done since then built on that book and flowed from it. The book's contemporaneity was highlighted, with its continued relevance to current issues.

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I mean, your book, The Prophetic Imagination continues to be such an important book. I think it's probably my fallback position and sometimes I look at it now and I think either, gee, I already saw that then or I think, wow, I haven't moved at all.

I mean, there is a sense in which everything you've done since then builds on that and flows from it.

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