Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks Kindle Edition

White written a few years ago, his prophetic insights are more relevant that five years ago. He links OT history and witness to our very moment with amazing clarity. The task of the church is daunting but hopeful. Highly recommended.

Thought written in the shadow of 9/11, I found this book resonating with a higher level of urgency given the past two years of American history. There are too many prescient themes to reveal, and I would not wish to steal any thunder from Walter Brueggemann and the wisdom he's offered through decades of serious and thoughtful biblical scholarship. But I will never look at the prophets in the same way again, nor feel abandoned by hope when reality and grief come to visit.

Brueggemann's Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks is an extraordinally profound and surprisingly opportune reflexion on ancient Israel's sense of choseness and USA's claim of exceptionalism ,which troubles the capacity to clearly see the true dimensions of reality and ,accordingly to realize the grief and hope indipensable to regain the capacity to correct one's conduct to overcome misleading types of behavour and action.I recommend strongly its reading to whoever is interested in the challenges of the future and the mistakes of the past in order not to repeat them.CordiallyMarcílio

If I had my way, this book and its timely message would be required reading for every politician, banker, and member of the military who put the word Christian in the description of their beliefs. Thank you Dr Brueggemann.

A book to ponder and to wonder - but one not to be laid aside until one completes the book, because it opens a huge understanding of the prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures both in terms of their own setting in the history of the Jews and the gripping insights to parallels in the world of today and our own nation today. Sylvester ?Ryan

Bruggeman is a great thinker and writer. He compares the history of Israel's destruction to that of the U.S. 9/11 situation.

This author helps the reader to see the role we each play in this attitude of exceptionalism that hides in plain sight and what it’s. costs are to society.

A summary distillation of consistent themes Dr. Brueggeman has written in many volumes over the past. If you read one book of his, read this one!

If you're familiar with Brueggemann's work you will not be surprised or disappointed. Here, with his particular insight he sketches out the subversive counter-narritive in the triad of reality, grief, and hope versus the denial and hopelessness of the Empire. Drawing upon the fall of Jerusalem and 9/11 as world shattering events, he comments that the church should practice reality, grief and hope as the way to navigate things. He works from Jeremiah, who talks of the reality when his contemporaries prophesied 'peace'. He uses Lamentations as the way of dealing properly with world ending events, through true grief. And then Isaiah 40-60 as inspiring a true hope contrary to the hopelessness when the false narrative crumbles.

An amazing prophetic insight into our times. Just because we are a "chosen" people iwe should not fall prey to 'exceptionalism' and pride. It's a lesson for the Church to remain humble and always dependent on God

Succinct and authoritative