[Unedited] Walter Brueggemann with Krista Tippett
The great scholar and preacher. \u201cReframing so that we can re-experience the social realities that are right in front of us, from a different angle.\u201d The disarming use of language. \u201cA society finally cannot live without the quality of mercy.\u201d\nWalter Brueggemann is one of the world\u2019s great teachers about the prophets who both anchor the Hebrew Bible and have transcended it across history. He translates their imagination from the chaos of ancient times to our own. He somehow also embodies this tradition\u2019s fearless truth-telling together with fierce hope \u2013 and how it conveys ideas with disarming language. \u201cThe task is reframing,\u201d he says, \u201cso that we can re-experience the social realities that are right in front of us, from a different angle.\u201d\nWalter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary in Georgia. He is the author of \u201cThe Prophetic Imagination,\u201d \u201cCollected Sermons of Walter Brueggemann,\u201d and \u201cTenacious Solidarity: Biblical Provocations on Race, Religion, Climate, and the Economy.\u201d\nThis interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode \u201cWalter Brueggemann \u2014 The Prophetic Imagination.\u201d Find more at onbeing.org.