Walter Brueggemann – The Prophetic Imagination

Walter Brueggemann is one of the world’s great teachers about the prophets who both anchor the Hebrew Bible and have transcended it across history. He translates their imagination from the chaos of ancient times to our own. He somehow also embodies this tradition’s fearless truth-telling together with fierce hope — and how it conveys ideas with disarming language. “The task is reframing,” he says, “so that we can re-experience the social realities that are right in front of us, from a different angle.” (Original Air Date: December 22, 2011) About the Guest: Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary in Georgia. He is the author of “The Prophetic Imagination,” “Collected Sermons of Walter Brueggemann,” and “Tenacious Solidarity: Biblical Provocations on Race, Religion, Climate, and the Economy.” Visit our website to read the transcript, download the episode, or listen to the unedited interview: https://onbeing.org/programs/walter-b... Visit our On Being Classics Library, where this episode is featured: https://onbeing.org/libraries/classics/ STAY IN TOUCH Facebook:   / onbeing   Twitter:   / onbeing   Instagram:   / onbeing   Newsletter: https://onbeing.org/newsletter/ OUR PODCASTS On Being with Krista Tippett: https://onbeing.org/series/podcast/ This Movie Changed Me: https://onbeing.org/series/this-movie... Becoming Wise: https://onbeing.org/series/becoming-w...