Disruptive Grace: Reflections on God Scripture and the Church

Walter Brueggemann has been one of the leading voices in Hebrew Bible interpretation for decades. His landmark works in Old Testament theology have inspired and informed a generation of students scholars and preachers. These chapters gather his recent addresses and essays never published before drawn from all three parts of the Hebrew BibleTorah prophets and writingsand addressing the role of the Hebrew canon in the life of the church.Brueggemann turns his critical erudition to those practicesprophecy lament prayer faithful imagination and a holy economicsthat alone may usher in a humane and peaceful future for our cities and our world in defiance of the most ruthless aspects of capitalism the arrogance of militarism and the disciplines of the national security state.