Walter Brueggemann, Hans Walter Wolff

The Vitality of Old Testament Traditions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The Vitality of Old Testament Traditions" offers the best current handling of Pentateuchal traditions as they operated in the past and as they help the church now. Wolff sees Israel's faith tradition as a continuous kerygmatic response to a variety of cultural challenges. Brueggemann introduces this dynamic view of tradition. Both authors approach the Pentateuch as a treasury of new expressions of faith resulting from conflicts between traditional formulas and changing social conditions. Today's church can remain spiritually alive only if its traditions continue to be as resilient as they were in the Old Testament community. Wolff and Brueggemann affirm that modern crises of faith should be met with fresh articulations in the manner of ancient Israel-- innovative and pertinent if they are strengthened by the relevance of the past.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Westminster John Knox Press
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780804201124
• ISBN-10: 0804201129
• Artikelnr.: 21267156

Autorenporträt

Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. His is one of the most highly acclaimed interpreters of the biblical text in this generation. Among his many works are 'Theology of the Old Testament,' 'The Prophetic Imagination' (2d ed.), David's Truth (2d ed.), 'The Land' (2d ed.), and 'In Man We Trust.'