Walter Brueggemann — The Prophetic Imagination

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🗓️ 20 December 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The great scholar and preacher. “The task is reframing so that we can re-experience the social realities that are right in front of us, from a different angle.” Prophets are also always poets. “A society finally cannot live without the quality of mercy.” Walter Brueggemann is one of the world’s great teachers about the prophets who both anchor the Hebrew Bible and have transcended it across history. He translates their imagination from the chaos of ancient times to our own. He somehow also embodies this tradition’s fearless truth-telling together with fierce hope – and how it conveys ideas with disarming language. “The task is reframing,” he says, “so that we can re-experience the social realities that are right in front of us, from a different angle.” Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary in Georgia. He is the author of “The Prophetic Imagination,” “Collected Sermons of Walter Brueggemann,” and “Tenacious Solidarity: Biblical Provocations on Race, Religion, Climate, and the Economy.” Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

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0:46.4	Walter Brugamon is one of the world's great teachers about the prophets
0:50.6	who both anger the Hebrew Bible and have transcended it across history.
0:54.9	He translates their imagination from the chaos of ancient times to our own.
1:00.2	He somehow also embodies this tradition's fearless truth-telling
1:04.4	together with fierce hope and how it conveys that with disarming language.
1:10.1	The task is reframing, he says, so that we can re-experience the social realities
1:15.8	that are right in front of us from a different angle.
1:19.4	Well, I think Martin Luther King did sometimes.
1:22.6	I think at his best, he was a biblical poet.
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