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Resource: Books (P42092.0000) Living Countertestimony: Conversations with Walter Brueggemann     
Author: Brueggemann, Walter.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012
Length: 176 pages
Heading: 255 — Theology
Subjects: Bible - Commentaries - General; Christianity-Bible Commentary; Discipleship; Theology
Location: BX4827.B66 A5 2012
# Copies: 1
ISBN/ISSN: 9780664234256
Description: FROM THE PUBLISHER: This volume invites readers to get up close and personal with one of the most respected and beloved writers of the last four decades. Carolyn J. Sharp has transcribed numerous table conversations between Walter Brueggemann and his colleagues and former students, in addition to several of his addresses and sermons from both academic and congregational settings. The result is the essential Brueggemann: readers will learn about his views on scholarship, faith, and the church; get insights into his "contagious charisma," grace, and charity; and appreciate the candid reflections on the fears, uncertainties, and difficulties he faced over the course of his career. Anyone interested in Brueggemann's work and thoughts will be gifted with thought-provoking, inspirational reading from within these pages.

DESCRIPTION: Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ (UCC), he is a world-renowned Old Testament scholar and the author of dozens of books and hundreds of articles.

Carolyn J. Sharp is Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at Yale Divinity School. Among her books are Wrestling the Word: The Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian Believer and Old Testament Prophets for Today, published by Westminster John Knox Press.
Age Groups: None specified.


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