The Creative Word, Second Edition: Canon as a Model for Biblical Education - Softcover

Brueggemann, Walter; Erickson, Amy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451499582 ISBN 13: 9781451499582

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2015

Synopsis

Every faith community knows the challenges of inviting new members and the next generation into its shared life without falling into an arid traditionalism or a shallow relativism. Renowned scholar Walter Brueggemann finds a framework for education in the structure of the Hebrew Bible canon, with its assertion of center and limit (in the Torah), of challenge (in the Prophets), and of inquiry (in the Writings). Incorporating the best insights from his own career and from the fields of canonical criticism, Old Testament theology, and pedagogical theory, Brueggemann offers a vision of how the community can draw on the shape of Scripture to educate its members. First published in 1982, The Creative Word is now updated and introduced with a foreword by Amy Erickson of Iliff School of Theology.

About this title

About the Author:

Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, and the author of numerous books including, from Fortress Press, The Word Militant: Preaching a Decentering Word (2007); Disruptive Grace: Reflections on God, Scripture, and the Church (2011); and The Prophetic Imagination: Preaching an Emancipating Word (2012). He is also the author of Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks (2014), From Whom No Secrets Are Hid (2014), and Ice Axes for Frozen Seas: A Biblical Theology of Provocation (2014).

About this edition

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1451499582
• ISBN 13: 9781451499582
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 216