A Gospel of Hope
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Beloved and respected by scholars, preachers, and laity alike, Walter Brueggemann offers penetrating insights on Scripture and prophetic diagnoses of our culture. Instead of maintaining what is safe and routine, A Gospel of Hope encourages readers to embrace the audacity required to live out one’s faith. This must-have volume gathers Brueggemann’s wisdom on topics ranging from anxiety and abundance to partisanship and the role of faith in public life.
- Offers a prophetic voice about the need to publicly live one the Christian faith
- Gathers Brueggemann's thought on a variety of topics focused around the gospel
- Presents valuable and thoughtful insights into a variety of biblical texts
- Includes an excerpt from Brueggemann's book Sabbath as Resistance
- Abundance and Generosity
- Alternative Worlds
- Anxiety and Freedom
- God's Fidelity and Ours
- Jesus
- Justice
- Evangelical Identity
- Neighbor Love
- Newness and Hope
- Public Witness and Responsibility
- Relinquishment
- Faithful Practices
Top Highlights
“When we do not trust in guaranteed abundance, we must supply the deficiencies out of our own limited resources” (Page 1)
“it is a body trip of putting one’s body at risk for the sake of new possibility” (Page x)
“It is the command of Jesus that we not worry, as the world worries, in ways that make us crazy or mean or angry or hateful or quarrelsome. It is a command spoken by Jesus who himself is un-anxious and unflappable. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine Jesus being anxious.” (Page 33)
“If the church in America is to recover energy for mission, it requires being clear on who God is, because our understanding of God has become soft and fuzzy and romantic and compromised.” (Page 76)
“still our fears, curb our anger, quench our brutality, and make us new.” (Page 10)
Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is the author of dozens of books, including Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now, Journey to the Common Good, and Chosen? Reading the Bible amid the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.