Struggling with Scripture by Walter
Brueggemann
Breath Of Fresh Air
My Personal Review:
When we chose Prof Bruegge's books to give away as Christmmas gifts,
one of those was Struggling with Scripture. It brings out his personal
beginnings in the confirmation service by his Father. At that point he is
given the Psalm verse, 119:105: "Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a
light to my path." In his recorded memory, our good Professor says: "He
did in that act more than he knew. Providentially, I have no doubt he
marked my life by this Book that would be lamp and light..."From his long
and intimately personal love for the Psalms, he touches upon his early
church tradition of "simple, irenic piety from the past..." One of those few
pages in Bruegge's writings when he piles up adjectives and adverbs like,
"seemingly, then utterly beyond me in its richness, concretely in my hands
and unprecedented generativity!" When he comes out with creative
linguistics and adds the emotion of his spoken words, it is enough to take
you back into time and forward into what will surely follow...In his rapidly
moving train of thought! He touches Biblical Authority through the
avenures of Inherency, Interpretation, Imagination, Ideology and
Inspiration. In one of his first classes at Columbia Seminary when I was
present he used these five huge words beginning with I's. That
immediately hooked me into signing-on for his Survey of Old Testament
and next his Theology of the Old Testament. Brueggemann's first Chapter
lives up to the Preface comments by William Sloan Coffin...where he
introduces Prof Blount and then Prof Placher and finally in more detail Prof
Bruegge. I cannot say enough good things about this little gem of three
chapters and delightful preface of Bill Coffin's. When you have heard these
two similarly dramatic speakers then you surely will want to digest their
magically miraculous, wondrous descriptive words. Gratefully, Retired
Chaplain Fred W Hood
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