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Professor Brueggemann here examines the literature and experience of an era in which Israel's prophets faced the pastoral responsibility of helping people to enter into exile, to be in exile, and to depart out of exile. He addresses three major prophetic traditions: Jeremiah (the pathos of God), Ezekiel (the holiness of God), and 2 Isaiah (the newness of God). This literature is seen to contain the theological resources for handling both brokenness and surprise with freedom, courage, and imagination. Throughout, Brueggemann demonstrates how these resources offer vitality for ministry today.
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- Published on: 1986-01-01
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Professor Brueggemann here examines the literature and experience of an era in which Israel's prophets faced the pastoral responsibility of helping people to enter into exile, to be in exile, and to depart out of exile.
About the Author
Walter Brueggemann is Professor Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and was a past president of the Society of Biblical Literature. His most recent books include Disruptive Grace: Reflections on God, Scripture, and the Church and Journey to the Common Good.
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49 of 50 people found the following review helpful.
Hopeful Immagination - learning from past mistakes
By Peter Johnston
This is the second book I have read by Brueggemann on the role of the Prophetic in the life of the Kingdom of God. He uses the books of Jeremiah, Ezekiel and what he terms `second' Isaiah as his source texts, and with them he puts forward a highly plausable, and yet quite incredible argument for the legitimation of the prophetic role within the church.
His theme in dealing with Jeremiah is principally grief. If we want the new thing that God wants to bring about, we must first grieve over the old state. That old state of sin and rigid structure, where God has become a rubber stamp for the wishes of the "managers of the Status quo." God will not put new wine in old wine skins. To bring in the new he will first dismantle the old and then cause new birth and new life to occur.
This part I believe has some major things to say to the church of New Zealand (and possibly to the whole western church structure) right now. The church is coming to the end of a life cycle where the `modern' style and structures are becoming redundant, along with those who try to support them. All too often the ministers and pastors of New Zealand churches are in their 50's and 60's, and they appear to have little understanding of the new structures required to cater for the up and coming `post modern' mind set. Brueggeman contends that many of these church leaders are like those leaders in Jeremiah's time who thought that they could maintain the present religious structure of their day. But God had the exile in mind.
Brueggemann then looks at Ezekiel who was a priest. His concern is with holiness and purity and doing things God's way. These chapters are tough to read as they start with personal holiness (by implication) and then shine the spot light squarely upon the church. Ezekiel was sent to the people of God, and his criticism of the lack of holiness is aimed at them, and at us the church.
The last part of the book is one about memory, and remembering what God has done in the past andthen using those memories as a spark of hope for the future. We are not to live in the "eternal today", as the purveyors of maintaining the present structures would want. We are to remember our past, and hope for the future that God promises. Only then will change occur, when the church starts dreaming of a different future than the one presently presented.
The change from our ways to God's ways will hurt, cause grief, be about purity and refining, but will result in purpose and hope and a church that can fulfill her calling. Brueggemann contents that the function of the church is that of a holy community that models holiness and compassion, being governed by the will and methods of the Kingdom of God.
The book has been quite life changing for me. It has opened my eyes to so much of the purpose of the prophetic, it's hassles and joys, and has caused me to have hope for our church and our national church community. It has also given me understanding as to why so many churches (including my own) spurn the prophetic ministry. The prophet is one who stands up and challenges the status quo, and those who support it. Ie. the church leaders. Of course there will be conflict, and rejection and trial. But now that I understand it, somehow that makes it easier.
This book is for those who wish to see the church really become the community of faith that God desires, and for those damaged prophets who need some encouragement to carry on doing what God has called them to.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Imagination in Prophecy--a Much Needed Insght
By Dr. Robert Hackler
This paperback, a sequel to his "Prophetic Imagination", does an excellent job of integrating scholarship with contemorary insights into how these prophetic writings relate to current American life. I have used it successfully as a text in my university and theological seminary courses and believe it to be one of the best texts on the prophets of the exile. I will be using it next month in an adult Biblical class in a church. Dr. Brueggemann was a mentor and advisor of mine at Eden Theological Seminary in St.Louis and is one of the most prolific Old Testament writers today. A must for O.T. interpreters!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Unmasking the real abomination
By Mr. D. P. Jay
I like everything that Brueggemann writes. He pulls the rug from under the feet of the pious who oppress others in the name of their god. Like Israel, we are in a period of exile in this `vale of tears', not so much because of individual but because of corporate sin: that of the multi-nationals and super powers who grind the face of the poor for the purpose of a fast buck.
On barrenness as a metaphor: But Sarah is the model of barrenness (Gen. 11:30), the pivot point of all the memory. The motif of barrenness is a way Israel has of speaking of the future, the child of the next generation being given freely and graciously by God in spite of all circumstance. The future is always unmerited, unwarranted, and impossible for Israel. Yet it is given! p. 116
Why this barrenness metaphor? Because the story was told in a time of exile when there seemed to be no future: The issue then is this: How can one assert that something which the empire judges to be impossible is possible for God? The answer is found in the memory.' The memory makes available to Israel in exile models, paradigms, and concrete references about old impossibilities which linger with power. The tale of Sarah and Abraham thus is told as a memory which continues to be actualized and fulfilled in this time in Israel's life. The power of this memory of impossibility works its transformative, subversive effect in the imagination of the present generation. Clearly only this memory, powerfully and passionately made available, prevents acceptance of imperial decisions about what is possible. p. 115
On the metaphor of the dry bones: In the powerful language of chapters 34--37, 40_48, 19 Ezekiel speaks about a new future given by God beyond the lost city. The final test of vitality in ministry is to articulate concrete hope just when the community decides upon hopelessness.
In 34:1--10 Ezekiel presents a harsh analysis of the shepherds (kings) who had used their power and office in exploitative ways. By way of contrast he enunciates the new rule in which the shepherd will genuinely care for the sheep (vv. 11--16). Very likely there is editorial work here reflecting a difference of opinion in the community. On the one hand, it is Yahweh himself who is offered as the new shepherd (v. 11). On the other hand, the hope is for a new David (v. 23), but either way, the ordering of social life will be humane and just: I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the crippled, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will watch over; I will feed them in justice. (v. 16)
The newness anticipated is a restored political order with political institutions that will practice justice. The justice refused before 587 is now to be a social reality.
The most familiar new possibility is the metaphor of resurrection in 37:1--14. It is clear that the language of "dry bones" and resurrection is precisely metaphorical, for in v. 12 the promise is "I will bring you home into the land of Israel." The hope is for homecoming for exiles. It is remarkable that this prophet who spent so many words on judgment and exile is the very same one who, in a new setting, can speak about hope so powerfully and so concretely. The homecoming is not presented on the basis of political analysis. Indeed, one could not see how that could happen under the Babylonian hegemony. The point is theological, not political. It is the "wind of God" which creates a new) future. That wind is beyond resistance from the empire or anyone else. p 66
The verse in Isaiah 43, that God `has called you by name' and the rivers won't overwhelm you is a favourite text for people in times of crisis - but what does it actually mean in its original context?: The assurance, in the form it is cast in Isa. 43:1-5, is an announcement that sounds like a baptismal formula: "I have called you by name, you are mine." You belong to the hopes and memories of Yahwism. You do not belong to Babylon. You are mine, not theirs. Such a liturgical formula is not worth much unless it comes with an act of concrete solidarity, which presumably it did. This rhetorical act of solidarity is a life-changing assertion because it begins to dismantle the conventional assumption that Babylon is the only game in town. Think what kind of imagination it would take to envision and ar¬ticulate an alternative identity! Such imagination is evident in the claim of salvation oracles in the midst of the empire. It is also evident in the claim of baptismal reassurance in the midst of an alien culture.
It's a tragedy that so many look to the Old Testament prophets to buttress their current political beliefs and to mine predictions for some future end of the world scenario. This book shows how Ezekiel radically undermines such misuse of scripture: God is not congenial to our more liberal co-opting of the prophetic tradition. In some ways, unsettling as it is, this view of God is freeing, because it asserts that all human efforts at being right with God and gaining admission to God's presence are so dwarfed as to be irrelevant. The initiative for the relationship is held so closely by God as to discourage human possibility or even human anxiety about possibility.
The key to Ezekiel's proclamation of God is this: God will not be mocked. God will not be presumed upon, trivialized, taken for granted, or drawn too close. God takes being God with utmost seriousness and will not be caught in any partisan alliance or any efforts 1 at use. God will not be pressed into the service of any other cause, no 'matter how noble or compelling. This is an important point for us in ministry as the known world of the Western Enlightenment collapses, for we have arrived at a view of God which is essentially utilitarian. We use God either in conservative fashion to buttress morality and the American way of life or in liberal fashion to provide motivation for social change of various ideological kinds. In the tradition of Ezekiel, against such exploitations, one must talk not even about God's will but about God's person, who is first of all not even to be obeyed but to be honored, glorified, adored, and feared.
For those who talk about homosexuality as an `abomination' but neglect social justice: What Ezekiel found in Jerusalem was a widespread practice of idolatry, which he regards as an abomination. Such idolatries are attempts, misguided attempts, to secure the city by trust in other gods because the terms of security from Yahweh are too costly.
Serious ministry as embodied in Ezekiel requires profound ethical commitment, but it requires an ethical commitment that is not reduced to a pet project. The juxtaposition of sexual morality and economic justice in chapter 18 is one that requires serious reflection. It is as though Ezekiel anticipates the critical reflection of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and understands how closely related to each other they are. The economic issues concern the unmasking of vested interests; the sexual agenda has to do with repression and with libertinism. This twofold agenda rooted in the issue of idolatry is precisely to the point of our own situation. The catalogue of righteousness in Ezekiel 18 has enough of a sexual agenda to satisfy any conservative who is worried about permissiveness. It has enough of an economic agenda for any liberal who is preoccupied with such public questions. The wonder of the statement is that they are there together. None of us may pick an item we prefer to the neglect of the others. The holy God intends that the two key "neighbor questions" (sexuality and economics) be sorted out on the basis of a right settlement of the God issue. Both issues are related to God's sovereignty and the distortion of idolatry.
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