A Glad Obedience

The Christian practice of hymn singing, says renowned biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann, is a countercultural act. It marks the Christian community as different from an unforgiving and often ungrateful culture. It is also, he adds, an "absurd enterprise" in the midst of the hyper-busy, market-driven society that surrounds us.

About the author

Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. He has published widely on the Old Testament as well as contemporary hermeneutical reflections, including, from Cascade Books: David and His Theologian (2011), A Pathway of Interpretation (2008), Embracing the Transformation (2014), The Practice of Homefulness (2014), Truth-Telling as Subversive Obedience (2011), Virus as a Summons to Faith (2020), A Wilderness Zone (2021), and Resisting Denial, Refusing Despair (2022).

Product details

• Authors: Walter Brueggemann
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780664264642
• ISBN: 978-0-664-26464-2
• No. of pages: 230
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 296 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous