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75 - Walter Brueggemann on Reading the Old Testament

Jun 30, 2020

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Introduction

2min

Passion for the Bible

2min

The Importance of Passion in Historical Criticism

2min

The Struggle to Maintain Credibility in the Academy

3min

Why We Should Really Fall in Love With the Old Testament

3min

How to Wrestle With a Text

4min

The Disadvantages of Synoptic Gospels

2min

The Importance of Prophetic Literature

2min

The Pathos of God

4min

10.

Heschel's Language and the Pathos of God

3min

11.

The Importance of the Arts in Understanding the Bible

2min

12.

The Unfinishedness of the Church

5min

13.

How to Be a Scholar in the Church

5min

14.

How to Talk About a Conflicted God

3min

15.

The Importance of Biblical Literacy

4min

16.

How to Develop Moral Creative Imaginations

2min

17.

The Importance of Listening to the Bible

3min

18.

The Importance of Owning Your Recommendations

3min

19.

The Importance of Bearing Witness to What It Means to Be Human

5min

20.

The Importance of Community Organizing

3min

21.

The Violence of God

4min

22.

The Challenge of Living in a Muslim Christian Context of Violence

5min

23.

The Meaning of Law and Grace and Justice

3min

Walter Brueggemann, renowned author and Old Testament scholar, speaks about engaging the Biblical text with an artistic interpretive lens that resists universal generalizations, then participates in a Q&A with the Fuller community.

This audio was recorded during the 2015 Fuller Forum.

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