The Collected Sermons of Walter Brueggemann - Three-Volume Set

Walter Brueggemann

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"These sermons are themselves versions of that dangerous but longed-for doxology, and they move from ruthlessly honest cultural analysis to confident praise with such linguistic power that one can easily overlook the superb detail, the impressive craft, and the fine tooling employed by Brueggemann, the master preacher. The impact of these sermons comes not simply from the finished artwork but also from the artist's technique—the preparation of the homiletic canvas, the mix of pigment, and the brush strokes."

—from the foreword by Thomas G. Long

Volume One:

In addition to being one of the world's leading interpreters of the Old Testament, Walter Brueggemann is a skilled and beloved preacher. This collection of sermons demonstrates Brueggemann's fidelity to biblical texts, which come alive with meaning in our contemporary world. Throughout, Brueggemann also reflects on his preaching. Volume One features a biblical index as well as a foreword by Samuel Wells of Duke University who writes: "Enjoy this volume from a master exegete, a master theologian, and a master preacher. They really are neat sermons. And they're for you."

Volume Two:

This collection presents over fifty masterful sermons from one of the most trusted preachers today, Walter Brueggemann. Brueggemann continues his task of making the biblical text available to the church. He sees preaching as a performance of God's good rule that, in an act of utterance and receptive listening, mediates the truthful, joyous reality of that rule. The sermons are organized according to the church year, starting with sermons for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany and followed by sermons for Lent and Easter and then Pentecost and Ordinary Time. Sermons for other occasions, such as ordinations, weddings, and graduations, are also included, along with a Scripture index. Whether a pastor or a person in the pew, the reader will find inspiration, reflection, and wisdom in Brueggemann's powerful words.

Volume Three:

This collection features sixty sermons by Walter Brueggemann, preached mostly in the last five years. For his final public appearances, he preached at various churches and the Festival of Homiletics, including his last address there in 2018. Most of these are based on lectionary texts, with numerous sermons on Advent-Christmas and Lent-Easter texts. Preachers will find inspiration in the handful of sermons covering special occasions or themes, including confirmation, evangelism, and funerals."

Sujets

• Preaching
• Christian Ministry
• Philosophie et théologie
• Religion

Informations

• Publié par: Presbyterian Publishing Corporation
• Date de parution: 28 janvier 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781646980321
• Langue: English

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The Collected Sermons of
Walter Brueggemann
Complete Set
Contents
Collection, Volume 1
Collection, Volume 2
Collection, Volume 3
The Collected Sermons of
Walter Brueggemann
Walter Brueggemann
© 2011 Walter Brueggemann Foreword and Reflections on Walter Brueggemann’s Preaching © 2011 Westminster John Knox Press
First edition Published by Westminster John Knox Press Louisville, Kentucky
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Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission. Where scriptural translations depart from the NRSV, they are the author’s own renderings, sometimes in liberal paraphrase. Scripture quotations marked ESV are from the The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked NKJV are from The New King James Version. Copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982, Thomas Nelson Inc., Publishers and are used by permission. Scripture quotations marked RSV are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1946, 1952, 1971, and 1973 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.
The following sermons were previously published in Walter Brueggemann, The Threat of Life : Sermons on Pain, Power, and Weakness , ed. Charles L. Campbell (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996) and are used by permission: “A Bi-lingual Life,” “A Demanding Long-Term Miracle,” “A Loser’s Powerful Footnotes,” “Afterward . . . after Bill,” “Check-Point John,” “God’s Relentless ‘If,’” “On the Wrong Side of the Ditch,” “Outrageous God, Season of Decrease,” “Power for Life Flown in by Bird,” “Power to Remember, Freedom to Forget,” “Taking a Second, Painful Look,” “The Surge of Dangerous, Restless Power,” “The Threat of Life . . . Permitting Its Intrusion,” “Trusting in the Water-Food-Oil Supply,” “What You Eat Is What You Get,” and “Deep Waters.” The following sermons were previously published in Walter Brueggemann, Inscribing the Text:Sermons and Prayers of Walter Brueggemann , ed. Anna Carter Florence (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004) and are used by permission: “A Fourth-Generation Sell-Out,” “A Resurrection Option,” “Bragging about the Right Stuff,” “Joined in Suffering . . . Reliant on God’s Power,” “Missing by Nine Miles,” “Newness from God that Unlearns Family,” “On Signal: Breaking the Vicious Cycles,” “One Exorcism, One Earthquake, One Baptism . . . and Joy,” “Saints Remembered and Saints to Come,” “Shrill Faith for the Nighttime,” “Strategies for Humanness,” “The Big Yes,” “The Stunning Outcome of a One-Person Search Committee,” “‘Until’ . . . Endlessly Enacted, Now Urgent,” “Uttered beyond Fear,” “Variations from the Barrio.”
Book design by Sharon Adams Cover design by Lisa Buckley Cover photo by Patrick Reddy
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brueggemann, Walter.
[Sermons]
The collected sermons of Walter Brueggemann / Walter Brueggemann ; foreword by Samuel Wells.—1st ed.
    p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-664-23445-4 (alk. paper)
1. Sermons, American—21st century. 2. Sermons, American—20th century. 3. United Church of Christ—Sermons. I. Title.
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For
Roger S. Greene
Contents
Foreword by Samuel Wells
Reflections on Walter Brueggemann’s Preaching
by Rebecca J. Kruger Gaudino
Preface by Walter Brueggemann

1. Gosh, Some Angels

December 24, 1972
2. A Zinger That Changes Everything
July 16, 1983
3. A Demanding Long-Term Miracle
February 28, 1988
4. What You Eat Is What You Get
June 5, 1988
5. Starting Over—From Heaven Out
December 25, 1988
6. By Faith
May 21, 1989
7. The Strong God with Two Weak Verbs
February 2, 1990
8. The Ultimate Gate-Crasher
June 3, 1990
9. A God Who Gives Wildly . . . and Then Insists
October 14, 1990
10. A Loser’s Powerful Footnotes
October 23, 1990
11. On Not Winning the Heisman Trophy
January 15, 1991
12. Neighbor Religion That Lets a City Work
February 26, 1991
13. The Surge of Dangerous, Restless Power
April 14, 1991
14. Taking a Second, Painful Look
February 23, 1992
15. Re-Formed for Ministry
March 1, 1992
16. Deep Waters
April 17, 1992
17. God’s Relentless “If”
April 23, 1992
18. Power to Remember, Freedom to Forget
May 10, 1992
19. On the Wrong Side of the Ditch . . . for a Long Time
September 27, 1992
20. When Nagging Is Hoping
October 18, 1992
21. Afterward . . . After George . . . After Bill . . . Newness
November 8, 1992
22. Checkpoint John
December 8, 1992
23. Trusting in the Water-Food-Oil Supply
March 23, 1993
24. Outrageous God, Season of Decrease
December 12, 1993
25. More Coats Than Imelda Had Shoes
December 11, 1994
26. Birthed Public and Peculiar
January 7, 1997
27. Sabbaticals for Rats?
April 29, 1997
28. An Intrusive Absence
December 7, 1997
29. On Signal: Breaking the Vicious Cycles
November 15, 1998
30. Uttered beyond Fear
December 4, 1998
31. The Yet on the Other Side of the Millimeter
December 13, 1998
32. Strategies for Humanness
February 21, 1999
33. Do You Want to Join the Miracle?
March 14, 1999
34. A Fourth-Generation Sellout
July 14, 2000
35. The Stunning Outcome of a One-Person Search Committee
April 25, 2001
36. Newness from God That Unlearns Family
May 13, 2001
37. One Exorcism, One Earthquake, One Baptism . . . and Joy
May 27, 2001
38. Joined in Suffering . . . Reliant on God’s Power
October 7, 2001
39. Missing by Nine Miles
January 6, 2002
40. The Big Yes
March 3, 2002
41. Saints Remembered and Saints to Come
April 7, 2002
42. Consider Your Call
June 15, 2002
43. Shrill Faith for the Nighttime
September 22, 2002
44. Bragging about the Right Stuff
October 19, 2002
45. Embrace of the New Truth of Abundance
November 3, 2002
46. The Church with a Middle Name: “West . . . ‘Water and Vegetables’ . . . Minster”
March 9, 2003
47. Three Habits That Make God Un . . . Happy
March 10, 2003
48. “Until” . . . Endlessly Enacted, Now Urgent
April 21, 2003
49. A Resurrection Option
May 4, 2003
50. Variations from the Barrio
June 14, 2003
51. Medical Care Free and Expensive
November 9, 2004
52. “Morphed” Back to a New Life
November 14, 2004
53. A Nighttime Gnaw and a New Possibility
February 20, 2005
54. The Good News of Cosmic Regime Change
May 8, 2005
55. The Sabbath Voice of the Evangel: Against Death, Denial, and Despair
May 29, 2005
56. Bread: The Good Stuff on the Table
October 2, 2005
57. On Not Doing God Any Favors
February 26, 2006
58. Called against the Distortion
March 19, 2006
59. The Hard Miracle of Transformation
June 12, 2008
60. Trusting Two Rocks
August 24, 2008
61. The Song of an Ex-Leper
February 15, 2009
62. A Bilingual Life

63. A New Way of Being in the World

64. Power for Life Flown in by Bird

65. The Gift of a New Chance

66. The Saving, Disruptive Moment

67. The Threat of Life: Permitting Its Intrusion


Scripture Index
Foreword
Surely none of his great forebears, Elijah, Jeremiah, even John the Baptist, can have looked the part more than Walter Brueggemann. Even had he not been soaked to the skin in the cadences and themes of the Old Testament (and soaked countless grateful others of us); even had he not taken on the role of wandering minstrel among the deaf citadels of the comfortable church; even had he not placed his ear to the ground of our culture and warned of our collective apostasies and traced our self-inflicted exile as eloquently as any figure of his generation; even then, the uncompromising beard, the doomechoing voice, the halting stride, and the piercing eyes would have done it on their own.
They could, together, in another frame, another vocation, another identity, say, “Don’t mess with me.” Instead they say, unequivocally, disarmingly, unforgettably—but thrillingly: “Don’t mess with God.”
How can one introduce the work of Walter Brueggemann without three numbered points followed by some exegesis and a constant eye for contemporary application? Hence, since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, this is what follows.
1. Walter Brueggemann is a scholar and a preacher. But he never assumes the two are the same thing . To speak of this man as the finest Old Testament exegete of his generation is so commonplace as scarcely even to be controversial. The guild may mutter about methodology but what makes the conscience of the guild stutter is precisely what makes the heart of the church sing: it is Brueggemann’s facility with a multitude of styles and genres, his ability to draw the text out in historical or literary or political or philological relief, that animates the sense of expectation that arises on opening one of his