Tenacious Solidarity: Biblical Provocations on Race, Religion, Climate, and the Economy - Softcover

Brueggemann, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506447708 ISBN 13: 9781506447704

Verlag: Fortress Press,U.S., 2018

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Tenacious Solidarity features essays and new writings from 2014 to 2018. As all of Walter Brueggemann's writing is, the chapters are deeply biblical while also concerned with the identities, practices, and obligations of religious communities in contemporary contexts within the United States. Brueggemann consistently attempts to weave the biblical texts--vested as they are with the authority of a storyteller--into the deep contours of his readers' experiences, in order to foster a tenacious solidarity that might overcome both the psychic numbness cultivated by a 24-hour news cycle as well as the anxious possessiveness nurtured by so many privatized spiritualities.

Brueggemann brings the "transformative potential" of the biblical texts to bear on critical contemporary contexts, including but not limited to economic disparities, racial injustice and white supremacy, climate and care for creation, and the power of memory and mentoring. He delves deeply in the Psalms, which he says, "provides a foundational script for living into the fullest and deepest realities of human existence." And he draws from the Prophets his foundational concept of totalism, which he defines as "automated fragmentation of social life such that we habitually and callously disregard our relations with others."

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Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary and the author of numerous books including, from Fortress Press, The Prophetic Imagination,Theology of the Old Testament and The Creative Word.

Davis Hankins is an assistant professor of religious studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fortress Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1506447708
• ISBN 13: 9781506447704
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496
• Herausgeber: Hankins Davis
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