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The Covenanted Self: Explorations in Law and Covenant
The Covenanted Self Explorations in Law and Covenant Author:Walter Brueggemann The leading Old Testament theologian confronts issues of faithfulness, responsibility, and justice. These exciting studies on the first five books of the Bible cover a wide range of topics, challenging the reader to confront the issues of faithfulness, responsibility, and justice in an every-changing world. Brueggemann sets the issues of praise... more » and lament, grace and duty, truth and power in new frames of reference that call for a response. He demonstrates that the Christian reader of the Bible cannot blithely pass over the Pentateuch as simply pre-Christian and without relevance. His creative use of metaphor and imagination invite the reader to encounter freshly in these biblical texts God's call and the work of justice.« less