Struggling with Scripture

Challenging the traditional meaning of Scripture is not easy, even in the face of issues that call into question those traditional interpretations. In these reflections, Walter Brueggemann says that the Bible, as the live word of the living God, will not submit to the accounts we prefer to give it. The Bible's inherent, central evangelical proclamation has greater and more permanent authority than our inescapably provisional interpretations. William Placher notes that taking the Bible most seriously means struggling to understand its meaning as well as affirming its truth. And Brian Blount distinguishes what some may claim as a last word, which is necessarily a dead word, from the living word that is God's word to us today.

Author: Walter Brueggemann, William C. Placher, Brian K. Blount
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 03/01/2002
Pages: 69
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.20w x 0.18d
ISBN: 9780664224851

Review Citation(s):
Books & Culture 05/01/2008 pg. 12

About the Author
Brueggemann, Walter: -

Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is the author of dozens of books, including Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now, Interrupting Silence: God's Command to Speak Out, and Truth and Hope: Essays for a Perilous Age.