{"id":2145,"date":"2013-07-11T10:52:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T16:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2013-07-11T10:55:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T16:55:32","slug":"ten-things-i-love-about-walter-brueggemann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2013\/07\/ten-things-i-love-about-walter-brueggemann.html","title":{"rendered":"Ten Things I Love About Walter Brueggemann"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

http:\/\/vimeo.com\/17359821<\/a>\u201cOne of the misfortunes in the long history of the church is that we have mistakenly separated love of God from love of neighbor, and \u2013 always \u2013 they are held together in prophetic poetry.\u201d \u2013 Walter Brueggemann<\/p>\n

I ran across this video a few days ago. It\u2019s this short little promo for The Justice Conference in 2011. You can read about the work they continue to do\u00a0here<\/a>. It started me thinking about how much I have been impacted by Walter Brueggemann. So I decided to post Ten Things I love about Walter Brueggemann.<\/p>\n

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  1. I love the sound of his voice. He\u2019s the Bruce Springsteen of Old Testament Lecturers.<\/li>\n
  2. I love the way he moves as he presents. The shrugging shoulders, the waving hands, the sideways head tilt that bobs and weaves. He talks with his whole body.<\/li>\n
  3. I love the way he says the word resources\u2026 like reez-orsus.<\/li>\n
  4. I love that he has always written with the pastor in mind, even more so than the academy.<\/li>\n
  5. I love that he never went off to the Ivy League or Duke or Vandy or a tier one program, but stayed for decades at two smallish seminaries (Eden & Columbia).<\/li>\n
  6. I love that he typically uses the moniker \u201ccovenant members\u201d instead of \u201cChristians.\u201d<\/li>\n
  7. I love that he has become so trained in on Justice that he\u2019s become nearly as annoying to some as the prophets of old. It\u2019s like he spent so much time on the prophets, he became one.<\/li>\n
  8. I love his 19 Thesis \u2013 they constantly guide my ministry. (I\u2019ll post on these soon).<\/li>\n
  9. I love his emphasis on the term neighbors, and how it is intrinsically linked to justice: \u201cInjustice is the outcome of having skewed neighborly processes so that some are put at an unbearable disadvantage.\u201d<\/li>\n
  10. I love that he wrote The Prophetic Imagination<\/em>. It\u2019s on my list of Top Ten Books Every Christian Should Read<\/a>. I blogged through TPI last year, here are the links if you are interested:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n