The Covenanted Self: Exploration in Law and Covenant

By Walter Brueggemann and Walter Brueggemann Columbia Theological Semi

Book Overview

These exciting studies on the first five books of the Bible cover a wide range of topics, challenging the reader to confront the issues of faithfulness, responsibility, and justice in an ever-changing world. Brueggemann sets the issues of praise and lament, grace and duty, truth and power in new frames of reference that call for a response. He demonstrates that the Christian reader of the Bible cannot blithely pass over the Pentateuch as simply pre-Christian and without relevance. His creative use of metaphor and imagination invite the reader to encounter freshly in these biblical texts God's call and the work of justice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800631765
• ISBN13: 9780800631765
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.2"