Hopeful Imagination: Prophetic Voices in ExileProfessor Brueggemann here examines the literature and experience of an era in which Israel's prophets faced the pastoral responsibility of helping people to enter into exile, to be in exile, and to depart out of exile. He addresses three major prophetic traditions: Jeremiah (the pathos of God), Ezekiel (the holiness of God), and 2 Isaiah (the newness of God). This literature is seen to contain the theological resources for handling both brokenness and surprise with freedom, courage, and imagination. Throughout, Brueggemann demonstrates how these resources offer vitality for ministry today. |
Contents
Exile and the Voice of Hope | 1 |
Only Grief Permits Newness | 9 |
JeremiahDesigned for Conflict | 10 |
Because No One Cares Jer 301217 | 32 |
Only Holiness Gives Hope | 49 |
EzekielTough and Submissive | 50 |
For the Sake of My Holy Name Ezek 362232 | 69 |
Only Memory Allows Possibility | 89 |
Second IsaiahHomecoming to a New Home | 90 |
Sing O Barren One Isa 54117 | 109 |
Hurt as Hopes Home | 131 |
Notes | 134 |
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Abraham alternative articulated assertion Babylon Babylonian empire Biblical Book of Ezekiel Book of Jeremiah Brueggemann chapters Christians church claims concerns conflict contemporaries context covenant covenantal culture death definitions of reality discernment dismantling Elie Wiesel exile Ezekiel faith fear Fortress Press freedom Gerhard von Rad God's holiness gods gospel grief healing heart homecoming hope ideology imagination imperial Israel issue Jerusalem Jesus Judah judgment known world language liberated literature liturgical Luke memory metaphor mismatch move narrative nations obedience Old Testament parable passion pastoral Paul Ricoeur Pharisee Philadelphia poem poet poetic poetry political precisely present promise prophet relinquishment rereading rhetoric sake Sallie McFague Sarah says the Lord Second Isaiah sense shaped situation social reality speak speech statement submission temple theme theodicy theological tion tough tradition of Jeremiah trans trust truth vitality in ministry voice Walter Brueggemann word Yahweh yearning