{"product_id":"deliver-us","title":"Deliver Us","description":"\u003ch2\u003eDeliver Us\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSalvation and the Liberating God of the Bible\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWalter Brueggemann; Davis Hankins, Ed.\u003cbr\u003eWestminster John Knox Press\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780664265885\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover, 170 pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e8.5 X 5.5 X 0.5 inches | 0.6 pounds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 an accessible digest for readers who want to engage his writing on the topic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis first volume in the series, \u003cem\u003eDeliver Us\u003c\/em\u003e, fittingly begins with the narrative of the exodus. Brueggemann has consistently brought attention to how the themes of the exodus event and the stories of the giving of the law that follow lay the groundwork for a biblical understanding of salvation. Drawn from numerous publications in recent decades, this volume reveals Brueggemann's clear understanding that divine liberation from exploitation and acquisitiveness also means liberation for generous action for the common benefit. This salvation involves not the security of the individual soul but a wholehearted transformation of social identities and relationships. With the gift of deliverance--dramatically enacted in the Hebrew people's being led out from the oppression of pharoah--comes the task of obedience--articulated in the covenantal laws given at Mount Sinai, in the wilderness, and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrueggemann shows how this double theme of the gift and the task is forged in the exodus narrative, then reenacted in salvation motifs throughout the Bible. The people of God, always susceptible to mentalities of scarcity, selfishness, and the compulsion to consume, are again and again called out by the subversive message of the prophets, and Jesus himself, to forsake exploitation and to liberate the marginalized--to return to covenant obedience and align themselves with God's radical commitment to create and sustain a more just and flourishing world. \u003cem\u003eDeliver Us\u003c\/em\u003e extends this same message of salvation, insightfully elucidated by Brueggemann in this single volume, for the benefit of both individual readers and the contemporary church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuestions for reflection are included at the end of each chapter, making this book ideal for individual or group study.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWalter Brueggemann\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eSabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eInterrupting Silence: God's Command to Speak Out\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eTruth and Hope: Essays for a Perilous Age\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavis Hankins\u003c\/strong\u003e is an associate professor of religious studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. He previously edited the Walter Brueggemann collection \u003cem\u003eTenacious Solidarity: Biblical Provocations on Race, Religion, Climate, and the Economy\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Westminster John Knox Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51725683949882,"sku":"085885","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0814\/2929\/9514\/files\/Deliverus.webp?v=1755026108","url":"https:\/\/edenbookstore.shop\/products\/deliver-us","provider":"Eden Seminary Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}