The Practice of Prophetic Imagination: A Response to Walter Brueggemann

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-176
Author(s):  
James B. Shelton
Keyword(s):  
Prophetic Imagination ◽  
Walter Brueggemann ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Hebrew Prophets

In The Practice of the Prophetic Imagination, Walter Brueggemann presents the case and guidelines for proclaiming the message of the Hebrew prophets in contemporary situations. He critiques defective epistemologies that shout down the voice of God such as those subscribing to an ‘irrelevant transcendence or a cozy immanence’. For Brueggemann, the prophets address two major realms: royal presumption and Canaanite religion and culture. He addresses contemporary issues that call for critique in contemporary preaching.

Walter Brueggemann, Prophetic Imagination, and the Productive Science of Homiletics

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-181
Author(s):  
Derek Knoke
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
The World ◽  
Prophetic Imagination ◽  
Walter Brueggemann ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Church

This review asks to what degree Walter Brueggemann locates biblical interpretation within homiletics, particularly where homiletics is defined as a ‘productive science’ – the goal of which is to make or create something. To the degree this is true, biblical interpretation is not determined by an a priori referent, whether that referent be a closed rationality of social scientific description (or historical reconstruction) or whether that referent be a resistant theological ideology which one imposes on the text. Rather, such a hermeneutic – a productive hermeneutic – would be determined by a desired goal or outcome. Homiletics, thus defined, is a means to an end – an end achieved by naming God as an acting subject in the world to bring about said goal or outcome. This review suggests that Brueggemann’s biblical interpretation can be described in this way and that a productive hermeneutic may be both social scientifically viable and beneficial for the church.

A Grateful Response Among Pentecostals

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-186
Author(s):  
Walter Brueggemann
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Prophetic Imagination ◽  
Walter Brueggemann

Walter Brueggemann offers an engaging response to four reviews of his The Practice of Prophetic Imagination: Preaching an Emancipatory Word.1 Brueggemann observes that the major note that is struck in the four reviews is the extent to which his book on the practice of prophetic imagination can be effectively and gainfully situated in a stance of Pentecostal interpretation. He values the ecumenical gains of our reaching across conventional traditions of interpretation to find common ground.

Hearing the Book of Judges: A Dialogue with Reviewers

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-50
Author(s):  
Lee Roy Martin
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Text ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Walter Brueggemann ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Book Of Judges

AbstractThis response to the reviews of Rickie D. Moore, Walter Brueggemann, and Robert Pope seeks to answer their questions regarding Pentecostal hermeneutics and to expand the conclusions of my book, The Unheard Voice of God. I gratefully acknowledge both the positive reception of my book and the collegial tone of the reviews. The response to Pope revolves around the role of Scripture in the lives of Pentecostals and elements of the Pentecostal approach to the Bible. I address Brueggemann's suggestion that I extend the results of my study to include the entire Deuteronomic History. Finally, a dialogue with Rickie Moore considers more closely the nature of 'hearing' the voice of God through the biblical text.

Public School Voice Clinics, Part I

1984 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
Sandra Q. Miller ◽  
Charles L. Madison
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
School District ◽  
Voice Disorders ◽  
Urban School ◽  
Urban School District ◽  
Local School District ◽  
Local School ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Voice Problem

The purpose of this article is to show how one urban school district dealt with a perceived need to improve its effectiveness in diagnosing and treating voice disorders. The local school district established semiannual voice clinics. Students aged 5-18 were referred, screened, and selected for the clinics if they appeared to have a chronic voice problem. The specific procedures used in setting up the voice clinics and the subsequent changes made over a 10-year period are presented.

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