Testimony to Otherwise: The Witness of Elijah and Elisha

The Bible and its preaching are for every generation urgent and indispensable, but they are especially urgent today. Within the preaching of Elijah and Elisha lie the possibilities and inspiration for the church to recover its voice in a way that is unfettered and unencumbered by old habits. It is the chance, and the responsibility, of this new voice to replicate in the present life of the church alternatives underway in the biblical text itself, to show that life "could be otherwise, " and to make it so. Considering these narratives canonically, Walter Brueggemann shows how the memories of Elijah and Elisha took on a quality and authority of lasting testimony. They exhibit a world profoundly open to the gifts, energies, and visions given by God. Brueggemann shows how such prophetic narratives summon listening Israel to a radical either/or decision, endlessly insisting that there are choices to be made that hold options for the world as otherwise.

Author: Walter Brueggemann
Publisher: Chalice Press
Published: 11/01/2001
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.54w x 0.47d
ISBN13: 9780827236400
ISBN10: 0827236409
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Biblical Studies | Old Testament | General

About the Author
Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. He is one the world's most noted interpreters of the Old Testament.