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  <title><![CDATA[The Prophetic Imagination]]></title>
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  <default-description>In this challenging and enlightening treatment, Brueggemann traces the lines from the radical vision of Moses to the solidification of royal power in Solomon to the prophetic critique of that power with a new vision of freedom in the prophets. Here he traces the broad sweep from Exodus to Kings to Jeremiah to Jesus. He highlights that the prophetic vision not only embraces the pain of the people but creates an energy and amazement based on the new thing that God is doing. In this new edition, Brueggemann has completely revised the text, updated the notes, and added a new preface.  &lt;P&gt;Contents&lt;BR&gt; --Preface &lt;BR&gt; --The Alternative Community of Moses&lt;BR&gt; --The Royal Consciousness: Countering the Counter-Culture&lt;BR&gt; --Prophetic Criticizing and the Embrace of Pain&lt;BR&gt; --Prophetic Energizing and the Emergence of Amazement&lt;BR&gt; --Criticism and Pathos in Jesus of Nazareth&lt;BR&gt; --Energizing and Amazement in Jesus of Nazareth&lt;BR&gt; --A Note on the Practice of Ministry</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1978</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Walter Brueggemann]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this book was the first time I began to understand the Old Testament (or the Hebrew Scriptures). Brueggemann posits that a prophets job is to critizice, to point out the areas where a religious community is acting in opposition to God's principles, and energize, to encourage the community to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18287382">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brueggemann's book helped reveal the oppressive structures present during the Old Testament period that I had previously been blind to prior (especially during David and Solomon's reign). It also reveals the OT prophets fight for peace and justice which continues to offer alternatives for todays bel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11684041">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19484232">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brueggemann is a refreshingly brilliant OT scholar who wrestles with the text and draws scarily prophetic application.  This book really makes me take a hard look at the dominant cultural script in America.]]></body>
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    <review id="8919189">
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  <date_added>Sat Nov 10 07:07:41 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is jacking up my understanding of what it means to ministry, serve, and be.  Where did All the flowers go?<br/><br/>I wrestle with these words...]]></body>
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    <review id="8959356">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an important read for those who care about both thoeology and art.]]></body>
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    <review id="16555514">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best books I read in Seminary. ]]></body>
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    <review id="8220190">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 29 11:27:11 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 25 06:09:02 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has been bandied about for years by folks whose opinions and hearts I respect, and yet it is only now that I get down to actually reading it.  Perhaps it's been the term &quot;prophetic&quot;, and my pre-cooked understandings of it, that has held me back for so long.  Thankfully, He Who Lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8220190">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47863281">
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[His main point, clearly articulated &amp; illustrated with Hebrew prophets, is that prophetic work is about CRITICISM (in the form of public grief to cut through alienation and numbness) and ENGERGIZING (amazement and hope to cut through despair) to create an alternative consiousness, imagine newness th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47863281">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13843892">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 28 12:16:31 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 02 03:56:30 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe it is the emergent language, the new age philosphy that bothered me about this book.  It surely wasn't the authority in which this scholar spoke of Moses, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Jesus....to a point.  It was just, God seemed to be missing or at least an afterthought in everything discussed.  It ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13843892">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69737876">
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    <name><![CDATA[Doug]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Moscow, ID]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Was the era of the biblical kings a step forward or backward? I was looking for a compact summary of the case that it was a regression, and that the prophets were an attempt to revive the original Mosaic vision. This book is a succinct summary of that case. I'll keep my eyes open for others.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thios was an outstanding book on the understanding of Biblical prophecy(NOT fortune telling!).  It was dense and probably bears reading several times toget a real understanding, but the connection he draws between the challenge to the &quot;Royal&quot; authority, the compassion for the poor, and the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75512115">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62048939">
    <user id="2393718">
    <name><![CDATA[Nick]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have mixed feelings about this book. Some of what Brueggemann has to say is spot on, but his understanding of certain biblical passages and their interpretation seem off base to me. Thought provoking but frustrating.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was required reading for my class...ummm, not the most captivating read...although there were some thought-provoking parts in the area of how we approach ministry...]]></body>
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    <review id="56464399">
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up after hearing him discuss &quot;the prophetic imagination,&quot; essentially the compassion of Jesus, juxtaposed to the &quot;royal imagination,&quot; essentially non-compassion, at the Nat'l Cathedtral, and I fully expect the book to live up to the talk. He claimed not to know anyt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56464399">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68982270">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book challenged me to read the old testament prophets in a new way.  it inspired me to see moses as a prophet, to read the book of jeremiah, and to read all of the prophets with new lenses on.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If the prophet Isaiah were alive today in America, what would he say? <br/><br/>&quot;I despise your sensationalistic multi-media worship presentations, your shallow and coercive VBS weeks, your motivational self-help preachers.&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;You have dug broken cisterns that hold no wate...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3961006">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57662937">
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book with interesting insight.]]></body>
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