Walter Brueggemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3965725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walter Brueggemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walter |
| FAMILY NAME | Brueggemann |
| SIGNATURE | BRUEGGEMANN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia Theological Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 40 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith
On Gratitude
Tenacious Solidarity
Agency and Restraint in Interpretation
With the work of Theodore Ziolkowski as a model, this article probes the work of biblical interpretation with reference to both agency and restraint. The exercise of interpretive agency means the interpreter has immense freedom. We are able to see how that interpretive freedom has played out in creedal readings, in scholastic interpretation, and in the work of historical criticism. At the same time, however, it is clear that restraints of method …
Reading the Bible amid the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is a difficult, complex interface in which new postures, new possibilities, and new dangers are constantly emerging, so that reiterations of old formulae are at best unhelpful. A biblical interpreter can make only a very modest contribution to that ongoing urgent conversation. In what follows I will seek to sort out some of the extrapolations that are made from the Bible. It is clear that the Bible, as the rabbis …
Performance as liminality
This study reflects upon the way in which an economy of extraction is indicated in the Bible, and the several ways in which the tradition of faith responds to such an economy in emancipatory and anticipatory ways. The practice of extraction is modeled in the narratives of Pharaoh and Solomon. Israel’s emancipatory narrative of the Exodus functions as a liturgy to imagine and empower an alternative of neighborly economics. The sustained re-perform…
Witness to an Extreme Century
Thinking beyond Easy Tribalism
Prophetic Ministry in the National Security State
Faithful Christian preaching in the United States is in the context of the ideology of the national security state, an ideology that permeates every facet of our common life. In that difficult and demanding context, this essay urges that Christian preaching must go back to basics, that everything depends on the mystery of faith, that “Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.” From that elemental claim, it is proposed that at the …
Ancient Israel on Political Leadership
Looking to the US presidential election of 2008, this paper considers models of leadership as they are rendered in the Books of I and II Kings in the Hebrew Bible. That corpus of historical memory is informed by the theo-political traditions of covenant in the book of Deuteronomy. At the beginning of the corpus, Solomon is presented as a leader committed to the pursuit of self-aggrandizement on the basis of political autonomy that need account to…
Dialogic Thickness in a Monologic Culture
This essay considers the context of the contemporary church in the United States as an environment of monologue in which one-way communication is prized and practiced as religious authoritarianism, market ideology that has no interest in communication, and imperial politics that proceeds from the top down. In such an environment, a primal task of the church is to advocate and practice a mode of life that honors the thickness of human interaction …
As the Editor Retires
Prayer at the Death of Gregory Peck
A Text that Redescribes
This paper reflects on the church's engagement with the biblical text and the emergency in the church when the church is inattentive to the biblical text. It considers the impact of the modern interpretive period in the church's loss of the text and ponders what the church's recovery of the text might entail. The large theological sweep of the biblical text is seen as an offer of reality profoundly alternative to the dominant scripting of reality…
Together in the Spirit, Beyond Seductive Quarrels
Preaching a Sub-Version
Texts That Linger, Words That Explode
The Loss and Recovery of Creation in Old Testament Theology
The Collapse of History
“‘In the Image of God’…pluralism”
Preaching as Reimagination
In what follows, sixteen theses are set forth and developed, suggesting that evangelical preaching finds itself now in a quite new cultural, epistemological context. (1) Ours is a changed preaching situation, because the old modes of church absolutes are no longer trusted. It is not that the church's theological absolutes are no longer trusted, but that the old modes in which those absolutes have been articulated are increasingly suspect and dysf…
Essay review
The Unity of the Hebrew Bible. David Noel Freedman
Against the Stream
The Book of J By Harold Bloom and David Rosenberg New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1990
The Loss and Recovery of Creation in Old Testament Theology
The Preacher, the Text, and the People
“My impression is that in controversies in the church that get the pastor in trouble, controversies about theology and ethics, that is, controversies about interpretation, we usually assume two parties in the quarrel, pastor and people (or some people). Given two parties, controversies predictably lead to win/lose situations. What has happened in many such situations is that the text has disappeared as a live, vocal partner in the conversation.”
Biblical and Post-Biblical Defilement and Mourning
Book Review| December 01 1978 Biblical and Post-Biblical Defilement and Mourning: Law as Theology Biblical and Post-Biblical Defilement and Mourning: Law as Theology, Emanuel Feldman. Walter Brueggemann Walter Brueggemann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Biblical Literature (1978) 97 (4): 593–594. https://doi.org/10.2307/3265412 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data …
The Triumphalist Tendency in Exegetical History
Journal Article The Triumphalist Tendency in Exegetical History Get access WALTER BRUEGGEMANN WALTER BRUEGGEMANN WALTER BRUEGGEMANN (B.A., Elmhurst College, B.D, Eden Theological Seminary; Th.D., Union Theological Seminary, New York) is Professor of Old Testament and Dean of Academic Affairs at Eden Theological Seminary. His articles have appeared in Vetus Testamentum, Interpretation, and Catholic Biblical Quarterly. Search for other works by thi…
From Hurt to Joy, From Death to Life
Israel characteristically met the hurtful dimensions of existence head-on, of course viewing them as faith crises, times of wondering about God and his fidelity, but also as faith opportunities, times to articulate again their expectations and assumptions, times to reformulate their position vis-à-vis the world of hurt and the God of faithfulness.
Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Journal Article ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES Get access Old Testament Covenant A Survey of Current Opinions (Growing Points in Theology). By DENNIS J. MCCARTHY, S.J. Richmond: John Knox Press, 1972. viii+112 pages $3.95. h b L.C. No. 71-37117. WALTER BRUEGGEMANN WALTER BRUEGGEMANN Eden Theological Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLII, Issue 3, Se…
Religions of Western Antiquity
Journal Article RELIGIONS OF WESTERN ANTIQUITY Get access The Gospel and the Land: Early Christiantty and Jewish Territorial Doctrine. By W. D. DAVIES. Berkeley. University of California Press, 1974. XV+521 pages. $15.00 L.C No. 72-82228. WALTER BRUEGGEMANN WALTER BRUEGGEMANN Eden Theological Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIII, Issue 3, Septem…
Israel's Social Criticism and Yahweh's Sexuality
The character and sexuality of Yahweh the God of Israel is a confused issue in which much is at stake. This paper suggests at least three matters are confused in the current discussion: (1) the clash between Israelite and Canaanite religions and cultures; (2) the contemporary clash between evolutionary (Wellhausen) and kerygmatic (Wright) interpretations of Scripture, and (3) the confusion between an insistence upon the asexuality of Yahweh and t…
Biblical and Post-Biblical Defilement and Mourning
Book Review| December 01 1978 Biblical and Post-Biblical Defilement and Mourning: Law as Theology Biblical and Post-Biblical Defilement and Mourning: Law as Theology, Emanuel Feldman. Walter Brueggemann Walter Brueggemann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Biblical Literature (1978) 97 (4): 593–594. https://doi.org/10.2307/3265412 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data …
Book Notices
Book Notices Get access Dynamic of Transcendence: The Correlation of Confessional Heritage and Contemporary Experience in a Biblical Model of Divine Activity. By Paul D. Hanson. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1978. 109 pages, notes, index $4.95 ISBN 9-8006-1338-4. Walter Brueggemann Walter Brueggemann Eden Theological Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volu…
Scripture in History and Theology
Passion and Perspective
“Perhaps the primary issue in education, in relation to the Bible, is to break the grip on church education which tends to be privatistic, idealist, and spiritual. The crucial question before us is whether, for the difficult decades to come, we shall have men and women in public life who have a passion for justice and a perspective of mystery, awe, and amazement.”
I. Books
The Embarrassing Footnote
“At the beginning of the narrative [II Kings 6:8–23], Syria is a great threat. At the end of the narrative, Syria has gone home in peace. The intervention of Elisha which changed everything is unlikely. ... His decisive action consisted in a prayer and a feast. It is as though in inscrutable fashion, he has said to both warring kings, ‘I will show you a more excellent way,’ a way which stands outside royal definitions of reality and possibility. …
Hope and Despair as Seasons of Faith
The Preacher, the Text, and the People
“My impression is that in controversies in the church that get the pastor in trouble, controversies about theology and ethics, that is, controversies about interpretation, we usually assume two parties in the quarrel, pastor and people (or some people). Given two parties, controversies predictably lead to win/lose situations. What has happened in many such situations is that the text has disappeared as a live, vocal partner in the conversation.”
The Book of J By Harold Bloom and David Rosenberg New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1990
Rethinking Church Models Through Scripture
“There is no one single or normative model of church life. It is dangerous and distorting for the church to opt for an absolutist model that it insists upon in every circumstance. Moreover, we are more prone to engage in such reductionism, if we do not keep alive a conversation concerning competing and conflicting models. Or to put it positively, models of the church must not be dictated by cultural reality, but they must be voiced and practiced …
Creation and the Persistence of Evil . Jon D. Levenson
Against the Stream
Essay review
The Unity of the Hebrew Bible. David Noel Freedman
“‘In the Image of God’…pluralism”
Preaching as Reimagination
In what follows, sixteen theses are set forth and developed, suggesting that evangelical preaching finds itself now in a quite new cultural, epistemological context. (1) Ours is a changed preaching situation, because the old modes of church absolutes are no longer trusted. It is not that the church's theological absolutes are no longer trusted, but that the old modes in which those absolutes have been articulated are increasingly suspect and dysf…
The Loss and Recovery of Creation in Old Testament Theology
The Collapse of History
Texts That Linger, Words That Explode
Preaching a Sub-Version
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