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Brueggemann, Walter.

Interpretation And Obedience : From Faithful Reading To Faithful Living / Walter Brueggemann. - Minneapolis : Fortress Press, ©1991. - x, 325 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Third world of evangelical imagination -- Embarrassing footnote -- Legitimacy of sectarian hermeneutic : 2 Kings 18-19 -- Transformative potential of a public metaphor : Isaiah 37:21-29 -- Case for an alternative reading -- Canonization and contextualization -- Commandments and liberated, liberating bonding -- Transformative agenda of the pastoral office -- Monopoly and marginality in imagination -- God's faithful plan : a context for caring citizenship -- Land : fertility and justice -- Land and our urban appetites -- Welcoming the stranger -- Cosmic hurt/personal possibility : Jer. 4:23-28; Isa. 45:18-22; Luke 6:21-31.

Drawing on specific texts that speak to cosmic hurt and personal possibility, Walter Brueggemann demonstrates the essential connection between faithful reading of the biblical text and faithful living in a world of banal, yet threatening values. He assesses the nature of obedience today in such areas as ministry, justice, the land, education, hospitality, and the contemporary imagination. - Publisher.

ISBN: 0800624785 (alk. paper) 9780800624781 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 90019231

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Bible.--Old Testament--Hermeneutics.
Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ethics in the Bible.
Obedience--Biblical teaching.
Christian ethics--Lutheran authors.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: BS476 / .B72 1991

Dewey Class. No.: 261 / B889