Awed to heaven, rooted in earth: prayers of Walter Brueggemann

Walter Brueggemann, Edwin Searcy

Fortress Press, Jan 1, 2003 - Religion - 174 pages

A collection of startlingly fresh and meaningful prayers, from Walter Brueggemann, a leading Christian thinker and scholar.

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User Review  - MarthaHuntley - LibraryThing

Walter Brueggemann is a master of words. These prayers are beautiful and powerful, and are the kind that will be read over a lifetime, privately and publicly. There is an index of scripture passages on which the prayers are based.

Awed to heaven, rooted in earth: prayers of Walter Brueggemann

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Brueggemann (Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA) is a classic in his own right. His Theology of the Old Testament is widely read in many seminaries, and his Old Testament ...

Contents

• And then you: 3
• A thousand a million a trillion tongues: 9
• You sweep away what we treasure: 15
• A people with many secrets Truthtelling confession: 25
• Against your absence A hidden: 41
• We are ready to listen For illumination: 51
• Move off the page While reading texts: 65
• Awed to heaven rooted in earth: 85
• Start again For a bruised world: 111

About the author

Brueggemann has been the William Marcellus Mcpheeters Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia since 1986.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Awed to heaven, rooted in earth: prayers of Walter Brueggemann
• Authors: Walter Brueggemann, Edwin Searcy
• Editor: Edwin Searcy
• Publisher: Fortress Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0800634608, 9780800634605
• Length: 174 pages
• Subjects: Prayers; Religion / Devotional; Religion / General; Religion / Prayer; Religion / Prayerbooks / Christian; Religion / Prayerbooks / General; Religion / Spirituality