Walter Brueggemann is professor emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary and the author of numerous biblical commentaries and scholarly works including The Collected Sermons of Walter Brueggemann.vIn the foreword to this paperback, Louis Stulman salutes the relevance of this expert on the Old Testament noting that his "intense theological engagement with the Bible never ignores the pressing issues that confound the church, pastoral ministry, and society."
In the first chapter, Brueggemann criticizes both ancient Israel and the present-day United States for their warped and unjust ideology of chosenness and exceptionalism. In the next chapter, he laments the military passion that has become part of the American way of operating in the world. Brueggemann challenges the prophetic community to bypass the culture of denial to serve as a proper venue for grief work. Hope is part of the Christian repertoire of action and so the Spirit can use it to harvest new possibilities.
