The Making of Sages: Biblical Wisdom and Contemporary Culture - Softcover

Morgan, Donn F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1563383284 ISBN 13: 9781563383281

Publisher: Trinity Press International, 2002

Synopsis

Donn Morgan explores the role of biblical sages and looks at their leadership and wisdom in a time of chaos, while asking where we can find such people today.

About this title

About the Author:

Donn F. Morgan is President and Dean, and Professor of Old Testament, The Church Divinity School of the Pacific.

Review:

"Beginning with modern theory on the educative task, Donn Morgan attempts to discover the nature of contemporary sagacity as viewed throught the lens provided by biblical wisdom. His provocative juxtaposition of sages, ancient and modern, generates more questions than answers, and in doing so continues the work begun millennia ago in a very different context." —James L. Crenshaw, Robert L. Flowers Professor of Old Testament Duke University (James L. Crenshaw)

"Donn Morgan has long since demonstrated his profound understanding of the wisdom traditions of the Old Testament. Here he pushes his thinking into interdisciplinary quarters, thinking like the educator he is. His articulation of the sage has a ring of contemporaneity to it, as he ponders reflective voices who lead the community of inquiry down under technical competences to the more hidden, more urgent questions of design, responsibility, and interependence. His inquiry serves, at the same time, to vivify Old Testament traditions and to address contemporary educators in the university, the seminary and in society more generally. Morgan, himself, here functions as a sage inviting readers to fresh, engaging reflection." —Walter Brueggemann William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary (Walter Brueggemann)

"Donn Morgan has long since demonstrated his profound understanding of the wisdom traditions of the Old Testament. His articulation of the sage has a ring of contemporaneity to it, as he ponders reflective voices who lead the community of inquiry down under technical competences to the more hidden, more urgent questions of design, responsibility, and interdependence. His inquiry serves to vivify Old Testament traditions and to address contemporary educators in the university, the seminary, and in society more generally. Morgan, himself, here functions as a sage, inviting readers to fresh, engaged reflection." (Walter Brueggemann)

"Morgan deftly juxtaposes biblical and contemporary perspectives on what makes a "sage." Morgan cleaves to his goal of urging the church and other communities of faith "to relate wisdom of the past to new challenges and changing circumstances" (p.xvii). Eager for present-day professionals to engage biblical sages as dialogue partners, Morgan points the way by considering the identity and social location of ancient sages and their contemporary counterparts."—J. Kenneth Kuntz,The University of Iowa, reviewed for Interpretation, April 2003 (J. Kenneth Kuntz)

"Beginning with modern theory on the educative task, Donn Morgan
attempts to discover the nature of contemporary sagacity as viewed
throught the lens provided by biblical wisdom. His provocative
juxtaposition of sages, ancient and modern, generates more questions
than answers, and in doing so continues the work begun millennia ago in
a very different context." —James L. Crenshaw, Robert L. Flowers
Professor of Old Testament Duke University
“Donn F. Morgan’s biblical wisdom and contemporary management and learning theory gather materials generated over a period of fifteen years. The essays glean from the best in wisdom studies over that period, and provide for the casual or scholarly reader a useful survey of where that sub-discipline of biblical studies has been going.” –Anglican Theological Review, Summer 2004 (Anglican Theological Review)

"Beginning with modern theory on the educative task, Donn Morgan attempts to discover the nature of contemporary sagacity as viewed throught the lens provided by biblical wisdom. His provocative juxtaposition of sages, ancient and modern, generates more questions than answers, and in doing so continues the work begun millennia ago in a very different context." —James L. Crenshaw, Robert L. Flowers Professor of Old Testament Duke University (Sanford Lakoff)

"Donn Morgan has long since demonstrated his profound understanding of the wisdom traditions of the Old Testament. Here he pushes his thinking into interdisciplinary quarters, thinking like the educator he is. His articulation of the sage has a ring of contemporaneity to it, as he ponders reflective voices who lead the community of inquiry down under technical competences to the more hidden, more urgent questions of design, responsibility, and interependence. His inquiry serves, at the same time, to vivify Old Testament traditions and to address contemporary educators in the university, the seminary and in society more generally. Morgan, himself, here functions as a sage inviting readers to fresh, engaging reflection." —Walter Brueggemann William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary (Sanford Lakoff)

"Donn Morgan has long since demonstrated his profound understanding of the wisdom traditions of the Old Testament. His articulation of the sage has a ring of contemporaneity to it, as he ponders reflective voices who lead the community of inquiry down under technical competences to the more hidden, more urgent questions of design, responsibility, and interdependence. His inquiry serves to vivify Old Testament traditions and to address contemporary educators in the university, the seminary, and in society more generally. Morgan, himself, here functions as a sage, inviting readers to fresh, engaged reflection." (Sanford Lakoff)

"Morgan deftly juxtaposes biblical and contemporary perspectives on what makes a "sage." Morgan cleaves to his goal of urging the church and other communities of faith "to relate wisdom of the past to new challenges and changing circumstances" (p.xvii). Eager for present-day professionals to engage biblical sages as dialogue partners, Morgan points the way by considering the identity and social location of ancient sages and their contemporary counterparts."—J. Kenneth Kuntz,The University of Iowa, reviewed for Interpretation, April 2003 (Sanford Lakoff)

About this edition

• Publisher: Trinity Press International
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1563383284
• ISBN 13: 9781563383281
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208