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Hope Restored : Biblical Imagination Against Empire by Walter Brueggemann;Davis Hankins; is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Hope Restored : Biblical Imagination Against Empire about?

The Walter Brueggemann Library brings together the wide-ranging and enlivening thought of popular biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann over his storied career. Each volume collects previously published work on a biblical theme that has deeply informed Brueggemann's scholarship, in an accessible digest for readers who want to freshly engage his prophetically minded but approachable writing on the topic. In Hope Restored , Brueggemann points us toward energizing hope for an alternative life of social equity and thriving. In Brueggemann's work, hope is not understood as easy optimism but as an honest facing of the unjust structures that human beings have created and a call to lean into the deep symbols of Scripture that imagine the alternative way of God, restoring solidarity and relationship that have been eroded by the violence of empire. According to the witness of Scripture, the divine presence is never settled into the arrangements and structures of the status quo. It provokes God's people to imagine beyond what they see and beyond their own selfish interests. Hope is always strongest among those who grieve and are willing to insistently critique the complacent, death-dealing so

Author

Walter Brueggemann;Davis Hankins;

Publisher

Westminster John Knox Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781646983117

Subjects

Christian, Religion