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Walter Brueggemann — The Prophetic Imagination

On Being with Krista Tippett

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What's Particular About the Prophets?

The prophets were rooted in the covenantal traditions of whatever was from moses and sinai. They are completely er uncredential and without pedigree. So they just rise up in the landscape. And a, eh, the way i put it now is that they imagine their contemporary world differently according to that old tradition. There's no way to explain that, so we explain it by the work of the spirit.

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