Our Hearts Wait, Walter Brueggemann
Our Hearts Wait, Walter Brueggemann
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Our Hearts Wait
Worshiping Through Praise and Lament in the Psalms (Walter Brueggemann Library)

Author: Walter Brueggemann, Davis Hankins

Narrator: Adam Verner

Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/20/2022


Synopsis

The Walter Brueggemann Library brings together the wide-ranging and enlivening thought of popular biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann over his storied career. Each volume collects previously published work on a biblical theme that has deeply informed Brueggemann's scholarship.

In Our Hearts Wait, Brueggemann meditates on the emotional range of our longings and gratitudes in the psalms, revealing how this bold outpouring of our full selves to the divine has effects far beyond introspection. He traces how the language of the psalms offers a template for liturgies that shape not only our collective worship and communities, but the worlds they create and sustain.

Throughout this exploration of the psalms, Brueggemann shows listeners how the language we use in worship performs what it proclaims. It nurtures and challenges us in seasons of orientation and praise, disorientation and grief, reorientation, and thanksgiving—bringing our full attention to each experience in its turn. But in doing so, the words and deeds of worship can also sharpen our awareness of social constructions and relationships that undergird our common life. They reveal power imbalances and uneven distributions of resources, and, if we let them, urge us forward in our efforts toward justice.

About Walter Brueggemann

Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is the author of dozens of books, including Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now, A Gospel of Hope, and Interrupting Silence: God's Command to Speak Out.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Matthijs on May 13, 2024

De toonaangevende oudtestamenticus Walter Brueggemann (*1933) publiceert nog steeds. Zelfs nu hij de 90 jaar gepasseerd is verschijnen per jaar meerdere boeken van zijn hand: gebeden, bijbelstudieboekjes, boeken rondom een bepaald thema. In de serie The Walter Brueggemann Library brengt Davis Hankin......more