Hope Restored - Print

Hope Restored: Biblical Imagination Against Empire.

By Walter Brueggemann; Davis Hankins ed.

Soft cover 190pp.
ISBN 9780664265908
Westminster John Knox (2023)
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Brueggemann points us toward energising hope for an alternative life of social equity and thriving.

Exploring models of hope that are expressed through critique, persistence, vision, and holy inspiration in the Hebrew Bible and that find continued resonance in the traditions of Jesus, Brueggemann locates in the Scriptures a tenacious shalom that breaks through the rocky ground of struggle and suffering.

This gritty, wide-awake hope is willing to be dissatisfied and to cry out against the oppressor, while reaching forward to imagine new alternatives with creativity and freedom, to bring into reality a social order that benefits and cares for all.

Questions for reflection are included at the end of each chapter, making this book ideal for individual or group study.

The Walter Brueggemann Library brings together the wide-ranging and enlivening thought of popular biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann over his storied career. Each volume collects previously published work on a biblical theme that has deeply informed Brueggemann’s scholarship, in an accessible digest for readers who want to freshly engage his prophetically minded but approachable writing on the topic.