Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks

by Walter Brueggemann

Book Overview

Walter Brueggemann is one of the most highly regarded Old Testament scholars of our time; talk-show host Krista Tippett has even called him "a kind of theological rock star." In this new book Brueggemann incisively probes our society-in-crisis from the ground up.

Pointing out striking correlations between the catastrophe of 9/11 and the destruction of ancient Jerusalem, Brueggemann shows how the prophetic biblical response to that crisis was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802870724
• ISBN13: 9780802870728
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.6"