Prophetically Political, Politically Prophetic: William Cavanaugh's "Theopolitical Imagination" as an Example of Walter Brueggemann's "Prophetic Imagination"

2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 567-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. P. Stephenson
Keyword(s):  
Prophetic Imagination

Prophecies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Harpers Ferry ◽  
John Brown ◽  
Prophetic Imagination ◽  
Southern Nationalism

Focusing on Edmund Ruffin, this chapter interprets the prophecies of secessionists. During a national craze for John Brown relics after the Harpers Ferry raid, Edmund Ruffin circulated Brown’s pikes to each southern legislature or governor to promote southern nationalism and secession. This chapter inverts memory studies to interpret how antebellum novels by Ruffin, John B. Jones, and Beverley Tucker forecasted civil war and elevated white supremacy. The prophetic imagination of secessionists like Ruffin empowered masters at the expense of women, yeomen, and slaves. By identifying themselves as conservative prophets rebelling against modern transgressions of timeless laws, southern nationalists adopted a historical consciousness that predicted a looming revolution to restore order and harmony. Their prophecies imagined bloodshed and destruction that exceeded the actual war and echoed earlier revolutions, particularly the American, French, and Haitian.

Prophetic Imagination and Empire in Asia

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-116
Author(s):  
Jude Lal Fernando
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Prophetic Imagination ◽  
Twenty First Century

The aim of this article is to identify the glimpses of prophetic imagination amongst the Christian communities in Asia, particularly in Korea and Japan, who are engaged in resisting the new round of militarization in the twenty-first century. This resistance denounces the globalist security complex in the region and announces a nonmilitaristic alternative forming a praxis that is necessary for a new theology of peace in East Asia and in Asia broadly. The political reality of the new round of military empire-building will be discussed with a personal narrative and a political analysis after which the theological meaning of prophetic imagination as opposed to imperial consciousness will be analyzed, correlating the personal and political with the theological. The ways in which the resistance to militarization resonates with the prophetic imagination of an alternative consciousness and community will be examined through an analysis of memories and renunciation of war by the churches. Broad implications of these resonances for a peace theology in Asia will be identified.

Responding to Walter Brueggemann’s Practice of Prophetic Imagination

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-169
Author(s):  
Rickie D. Moore
Keyword(s):  
New Work ◽  
Personal Testimony ◽  
Prophetic Imagination ◽  
Previous Visit

This appreciative response to Walter Brueggemann’s Practice of Prophetic Imagination is set within the context of the long and fruitful engagement of Pentecostal scholars with Brueggemann and his work, including his previous visit with the Society for Pentecostal Studies in 1998. This response proceeds to trace the fresh moves in Brueggemann’s new work in terms of how they move beyond his now classic volume, The Prophetic Imagination, first published in 1978. Moore concludes by offering some thoughts from his Pentecostal perspective on the importance of personal testimony coming together with social witness in the practice of prophetic imagination, whether for the prophets of old or for us today.

scholarly journals Halen som logrer med hunden

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Truls Åkerlund
Keyword(s):  
Social Engagement ◽  
Pastoral Leadership ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Therapeutic Culture ◽  
Prophetic Imagination ◽  
The Church

The tail is wagging the dog: On Pentecostal eschatology and social engagement Pentecostals have often been accused, and rightly so, of an other-worldly eschatology that leads to escape from, rather than engagement in, society. In contrast, this article seeks to demonstrate that Pentecostal spirituality and worldview carry the seed of a more fruitful approach towards social engagement and transformation, and proposes (a) proleptic anticipation, (b) holistic soteriology, (c) openness to God, and (d) prophetic imagination as starting points for an eschatology that takes both Pentecostal characteristics and the well-being of society seriously. Further, the study points out dispensationalism, fatalism, understanding of time, and waning eschatological expectations as issues that must be addressed for this potential to be realized. Finally, it concludes with implications for pastoral leadership and preaching, highlighting the need for an eschatological pulpit to avoid the damage of the contemporary therapeutic culture in the life of the church.

scholarly journals Prophetic Imagination in the Light of Narratology and Disability Studies in Isaiah 40-48

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simeon Chavel
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Divine Will ◽  
Prophetic Imagination ◽  
Will Power

The study argues that to persuade Judeans in Babylon that Yahweh, not Marduk, authored Cyrus' victories, and they should move to Judea, the author of Isa 40-48 countered an historiographically advanced ideology that divine embodiment in royally sponsored temples proves divine will, power, and presence. The author rejects any such historiography as based in human faculties; develops a complex notion of divine irreducibility and prophetic ability; and presents it in a text to match.

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