Interrupting Silence
God's Command to Speak Out
$39.61
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
20 February 2019
Summary
Silence is a complex matter. It can refer to awe before unutterable holiness, but it can also refer to the coercion where some voices are silenced in the interest of control by the dominant voices. It is the latter silence that Walter Brueggemann explores, urging us to speak up in situations of injustice.
INTERRUPTING SILENCE illustrates that the Bible is filled with stories where marginalized people break repressive silence and speak against it. Examining how maintaining sil…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473686014 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473686016 |
| Author: | Walter Brueggemann |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Hodder Faith |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 20 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 99g |
| Dimensions: | 280mm x 230mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Walter Brueggemann
Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. Widely considered one of the most influential Bible interpreters of our time, he is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, and the author of dozens of books, including Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now, The Prophetic Imagination and The Message of the Psalms.
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