Walter Brueggemann The Prophetic Imagination
The great scholar and preacher. \u201cThe task is reframing so that we can re-experience the social realities that are right in front of us, from a different angle.\u201d Prophets are also always poets. \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\nFind the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.