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# Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture Paperback – March 8, 2013

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    God's option is for the poor. "Truth Speaks to Power" is a powerful assertion ...
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2014*

Walter Brueggemann is a most insightful commentator, drawing deeply from the biblical heritage of mercy and justice.  He is a fearless critic of our upside values that place power in the service of the rich and powerful.  Brueggemann details the ways in which this idolatry is subverted in scripture -- God's option being for the poor.  "Truth Speaks to Power" is a powerful assertion of this bias.  Brueggemann's writing is lyracal and revelatory, pulling back the curtain to expose the reality that undermines "official truth" of the powers and principalities.  This is a most insightful work that allows the reader to look at scripture with fresh eyes.  It liberates the Bible from a literalist reading to breath new life into scripture and into our stratified world.  Be prepared for new insights into our current affairs by looking afresh at an old story we thought we knew.  It is well worth the time.  In Brueggmann's hands we see just how radically subversive the Bible is, and therein is liberation.

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    Reality Meets Empowerment
  

*by D***Y on Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2013*

I loved this book because Walter has the ability to remind us of the devastating effects of Empire (Does not matter which one) while maintaining a positive solution and hope.  Empire is about mankind overstepping it's bounds.  We do not make very good divinity.  The history of the world proves this over and over.  The prophets spoke to this arrogance while calling the powers to return to their humanity and their God.  We can speak to power because we are equal to them and our place in the universe makes it so.  The book has no dualistic thinking (Something we forget about when reading the Bible because most of us have been trained in western dualistic, either/or thinking).  The advantage of this for reading it today is the need we have of critiquing Empire while offering compassionate solutions.  Prophets are often viewed as doomsdayers while in reality they simply calls us for return to wholeness, a life we were designed for.  Walter proves his gift once again.

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    Brueggemann teaches us how to begin to read Scripture and think about its implications
  

*by J***K on Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2014*

"Although the Bible may not endorse any particular political agenda, it places in question any agenda that protects the privilege of some at the expense of others." (from the Foreward). In this short book (167pp) which emerged from a series of conference lectures, the author, an acclaimed Old Testament scholar, examines the biblical stories of Moses, Solomon, Elisha and Josiah to reveal that "power that has been founded on something other than truth (e.g. deception, violence) is exposed as fraudulent, delegitimized." What I found most valuable about this book is Walter Brueggemann's reading of scripture which is at once surprising, enlightening and challenging of the naive, flat reading of scripture in which I was discipled and which is most common (when scripture is, in fact, read) in/by the church. Though not presented as such, this book is a fitting companion to Brueggemann's more recent "Reality, Grief, and Hope; Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks."

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