Walter Brueggemann Column
Church Anew is honored to host Walter Brueggemann as our featured columnist. We look forward to sharing Walter’s work with church leaders and faithful people worldwide. May his powerful and reflective writings inspire, energize, guide, and comfort you.
Moving Beyond Imagination--but Not Really: A Reflection from Brueggemann’s Biographer
A brief peek into the prophetic imagination of Walter Brueggemann as captured by his biographer, Conrad Kanagy.
A Preacher's Dilemma: Verse 12?
The first, very important task of exegesis was to determine the extent of the textual unit, where it began and where it ended. This is often clear and self-evident in scripture; but sometimes it is not. Jeremiah 18:1-11 and Jeremiah 18:1-12 offer somewhat contradictory, but equally valuable, interpretations of scripture that can be relevant to modernity and thus strategic to ministry.
The Dangerous Arson of a Bramble
When good leadership does not step up to responsibility, it may go by default to nefarious control of others who intend no positive outcome for the common good.
Rescinding Absolutes
It turns out, through the repudiation of the doctrine by Pope Francis, that no “absolute” that stands against human dignity and human wellbeing is a sustainable absolute. All such claims are relative to time, place, circumstance, and vested interest.
Originalism?
In the Bible itself we may observe the tension between “originalism” of “God’s own words” and the freedom of interpretation and commentary that make it possible to rearticulate the text in response to the present social reality of the interpreter.