Hope Within HistoryWithin a culture that is presently shaped by values of hopelessness, Walter Brueggemann looks at the biblical text and finds the resources for a hope within history, a hope that challenges hopelessness and dispair. Hope within History describes how individuals and churches can grow even when at odds with their social context, addresses the theological question of how we experience hope in our historical-biblical context, and provides a model for faith development based on our understanding of hope within history as set forth in the biblical narrative. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Faith Development | 7 |
Righteousness as Power for Life | 27 |
Blessed Are the Historymakers | 49 |
Grief in the Midst of Technique | 72 |
Will Our Faith Have Children? | 92 |
Common terms and phrases
act of hope alternative analysis articulation assertion Babylon Babylonian Bible biblical faith book of Isaiah Brueggemann chapter claims concrete context covenant critical critique of ideology culture Deuteronomy discerned dismantling dominant dream embrace empire evangelical faith exile Exodus narrative faith development faith formation faith have children faith transformation Fortress freedom future Gerhard von Rad God's Gottwald grief Hananiah Harper & Row historical process history-makers history-making process hopelessness human imperial Israelite issue Jeremiah Jerusalem Jürgen Moltmann justice kingdom kings liberated literature liturgic lives Mendenhall metaphor move normative Old Testament oppression pain Paul Paul Ricoeur person Pharaoh Philadelphia poem poet political precisely present promise prophetic public processing question Rachel radical reality religious righteousness Robert Coote says the LORD Second Isaiah serious shape social imagination speak story subversive theme theodicy things time-line torah tradition of hope understanding voice W. B. Gallie word Yahweh York