Struggling with Scripture - Softcover

Brueggemann, Walter; Placher, William C.; Blount, Brian K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0664224857 ISBN 13: 9780664224851

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002

Synopsis

Challenging the traditional meaning of Scripture is not easy, even in the face of issues that call into question those traditional interpretations. In these reflections, Walter Brueggemann says that the Bible, as the live word of the living God, will not submit to the accounts we prefer to give it. The Bible's inherent, central evangelical proclamation has greater and more permanent authority than our inescapably provisional interpretations. William Placher notes that taking the Bible most seriously means struggling to understand its meaning as well as affirming its truth. And Brian Blount distinguishes what some may claim as a "last word," which is necessarily a dead word, from the living word that is God's word to us today.

About this title

About the Author:

Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. He is the world's leading interpreter of the Old Testament, and is the author of numerous books, including Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination and Reverberations of Faith: A Theological Handbook of Old Testament Themes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0664224857
• ISBN 13: 9780664224851
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 69