The Art of Prophecy: A How-To Guide from Beyond the Grave by Amos, a Major Minor Prophet - Softcover

Breeden, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1666702013 ISBN 13: 9781666702019

Verlag: Resource Publications, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

This book-length poem imagines the Hebrew prophet Amos writing his memoirs from beyond the grave. Born into poverty and obscurity, Amos the shepherd and sycamore pruner faced daunting challenges in his attempts to follow what he heard as God’s charge to change the social structures of his time. He had his vocation and his art, but what chance did he have against entrenched political corruption and religious hypocrisy? As Amos examines his life, his art, his message, and his failure, he recognizes the impossibilities of the trackless path out of the desert that he walked in life, and he faces the awful truth that “reality has authors.” The poor do not write that reality, and Amos takes both pride and umbrage that he is recorded forever in the biblical canon as a “major minor prophet.” From the comfort of the afterlife, Amos explores life’s deepest questions with such companions as Laozi, King David, William Shakespeare, and Michel Foucault. Amos learns that telling the truth isn’t easy or perhaps possible, even from beyond the grave. Still, he cannot avoid considering human existence and asking: Is it necessary to speak truth to power when victory is impossible?

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Rev. Dr. David Breeden is a Unitarian Universalist minister and author. He has served as the Senior Minister at the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis (FUS) since 2013. The First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis is a historic congregation with a long-standing tradition of congregational humanism, progressive thought, and social activism.Dr. Breeden has an MFA from The Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, a Ph.D. from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, with additional study at Breadloaf and in writing and Buddhism at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. He also has a Master of Divinity from Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago. ¿As a scholar and author, Dr. Breeden has contributed to various publications, including essays, articles, and books. His works often challenge conventional beliefs and encourage critical thinking.His published books include A Little Book of Living Through the Day: Poems During a Pandemic, The Art of Prophecy, After the Bloody Mary Game: Living Into Humanism, Daodejing: a translation, Deep Fragrance (in the Valley of the Void), News from the Kingdom of God: Meditations on the Gospel of Thomas, They've Played for Timelessness (with Chips of When), This is Just to Say, Meditations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams.Dr. Breeden is an adjunct faculty member of United Theological School in the Twin Cities and Chairs the Education Committee of the American Humanist Association. He is a professional member of PEN and is an Associate member of the Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought (IARPT). He was the 2023 recipient of the Distinguished Service Award by the American Humanist Association.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Resource Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1666702013
• ISBN 13: 9781666702019
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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