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Finally Comes the Poet

Finally Comes the Poet

Paperback

General Christianity

ISBN10: 0800623940
ISBN13: 9780800623944
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Published: Jan 1 1989
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.46 Depth: 8.38
Language: English

The Christian gospel, says Brueggemann, is too easily preached and heard. Too often technical reason and excessive religious certitude reduce the gospel to coercive, debilitating pietisms that mask the text's meaning and freeze the hearers heart.

With skill and imagination, Brueggemann demonstrates how the preacher can engage in daring speech-differently voiced and therefore differently heard. This speech, as suggested by the Bible itself, is poetic speech, enabling the preacher to forge communion in the midst of alienation, bring healing out of guilt, and empower the hearer for missional imagination.

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