RT Book
T1 Truth and hope: essays for a perilous age
A1 Brueggemann, Walter 1933-
LA English
PP Louisville, Kentucky
PB Westminster John Knox Press
YR 2020
ED First
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1689345276
AB "In this varied collection of essays, Walter Brueggemann provides a lens into biblical teachings concerning the present age of fake news, lies, and alternate realities. Compiled and edited by Louis Stulman, professor of religion at the University of Findlay, these essays carry a common theme of truth and hope. As Brueggemann writes in the preface, "There is no doubt that the prophetic tradition regularly engages in truth-telling in order to expose social reality as a systemic act of 'falseness' that contradicts the purposes of God. The prophetic tradition of Jeremiah, for instance, is preoccupied with truth-telling that exposes 'falseness.' The prophet exposes the deceit of dominant culture." That same prophetic tradition (like many others) turns eventually to the work of hope-telling. Such hope does not doubt that the faithful God can create futures, a way out of no way. The sequence from truth to hope in the book of Jeremiah is characteristic of the prophetic books of the Old Testament. These several prophetic voices (that gave canonical shape to the prophetic books) knew that this sequence is definingly important. There can be no hope until truth is told. Our temptation, of course, is to do the work of hope without the prior work of truth. Readers will find this collection of essays to be theologically rooted in the concept of prophetic tradition as a means of truth-telling. Brueggemann explores that, without God, truth-telling is nothing more than harping, and hope-telling is only wishful thinking"--
CN BS1192.5
SN 9780664265960
K1 Bible : Old Testament : Theology
K1 Bible : Old Testament : Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 Bible : Prophets : Theology
K1 Truth : Biblical teaching
K1 Hope : Biblical teaching
K1 Church and social problems : Protestant churches
K1 United States : Religion : 21st century