Testimony to otherwise : the witness of Elijah and Elisha

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Label

Testimony to otherwise : the witness of Elijah and Elisha

Title remainder

the witness of Elijah and Elisha

Statement of responsibility

Walter Brueggemann

Creator

• Brueggemann, Walter

Subject

• Bible, Kings -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Elisha, (Biblical prophet)
• Elijah, (Biblical prophet)
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Bible, Kings
• Elijah, (Biblical prophet)
• Elisha, (Biblical prophet)

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

The Bible and its preaching are for every generation urgent and indispensable, but they are especially urgent today. Within the preaching of Elijah and Elisha lie the possibilities and inspiration for the church to recover its voice in a way that is unfettered and unencumbered by old habits. It is the chance, and the responsibility, of this new voice to replicate in the present life of the church alternatives underway in the biblical text itself, to show that life "could be otherwise, " and to make it so. Considering these narratives canonically, Walter Brueggemann shows how the memories of Elijah and Elisha took on a quality and authority of lasting testimony. They exhibit a world profoundly open to the gifts, energies, and visions given by God. Brueggemann shows how such prophetic narratives summon listening Israel to a radical either/or decision, endlessly insisting that there are choices to be made that hold options for the world as otherwise

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

222/.5092

Index

index present

LC call number

BS580.E4

LC item number

B78 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography