The Prophetic Imagination
Walter Brueggemann is amongst the world’s teachers that are great the prophets whom both anchor the Hebrew Bible and have now transcended it across history. He translates their imagination through the chaos of ancient times to your very own. He somehow additionally embodies this tradition’s fearless truth-telling together with intense hope — and exactly how it conveys some a few a few ideas with disarming language. “The task is reframing, ” he says, “so that people can re-experience the social realities which are appropriate in the front of us, from yet another angle. ”
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Krista Tippett, host: Walter Brueggemann is just one of the world’s teachers that are great the prophets whom both anchor the Hebrew Bible and possess transcended it across history. He translates their imagination through the chaos of ancient times to your very own. He somehow additionally embodies this tradition’s fearless truth-telling together with tough hope — and exactly how it conveys by using disarming language. “The task is reframing, from a different angle. ” he says, “so that we can re-experience the social realities that are right in front of us”
Walter Brueggemann: i believe Martin Luther King did, sometimes — we think at their most readily useful he had been a biblical poet. In the event that you just think about “I Have a Dream, ” it just sort of soared away. He wasn’t actually speaing frankly about enacting a civil legal rights bill, except which he had been. However it ended up being language which was away beyond the quarrels that people do. I do believe that takes place every once in awhile that way.
Music: “Seven League Boots” by Zoe Keating