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Israel's Praise: Doxology against Idolatry and Ideology

Israel's Praise: Doxology against Idolatry and IdeologyIsrael's Praise: Doxology against Idolatry and Ideology

Israel's Praise

Doxology against Idolatry and Ideology

Walter Brueggemann (Author)

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Atgues that, rightly practiced, the Psalms of Israel make available an evangelical world of Yahweh's sovereignty—a world marked by justice, righteousness, mercy, peace, and compassion.
  • Publisher Fortress Press
  • Format Paperback
  • ISBN 9780800620448
  • Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
  • Pages 208
  • Publication Date March 1, 1988

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"Praise is the duty and delight, the ultimate vocation of the human community; indeed of all creation. Yet, all life is aimed toward God and finally exists for the sake of God. Praise articulates and embodies our capacity to yield, submit, and abandon ourselves in trust and gratitude to the One whose we are. Praise is not only a human requirement and a human need, it is also a human delight. We have a resilient hunger to move beyond self, to return our energy and worth to the One from whom it has been granted. In our return to that One, we find our deepest joy. That is what it means to 'glorify God and enjoy God forever.'"

Table of Contents

    Preface

  1. Praise as a Constitutive Act
    The Psalms as Creative Acts
    The Constitutive Power of Praise
    World-making as an Imaginative Enterprise
    Conclusion

  2. The "world" of Israel's Doxology
    The Gospel of Enthronement
    The Liturgy of Liberation
    A New world for Exiles
    Conclusion

  3. Doxology at the Edge of Ideology: The King of Majesty and Mercy
    Reality Given, Reality Imposed
    The Gospel Under Royal Supervision
    The Interplay of Resilience and Distortion
    World-making and Royal Legitimacy
    "Singing Down" and "Singing Up"
    A World Sung as Raw, Primitive, Revolutionary

  4. Doxology without Reason: The Loss of Israel's World of Hope
    When Summons Preempts Reason
    When Concreteness Is Generalized
    When Transformation Becomes Abiding Order
    A Mute God, a Static World
    A World Ordered against Hope

  5. Doxology inside the "Claims of Time and Sorrow"
    A World Too Certain
    Pain as the Locus of Possibility
    Pain as the Matrix of Praise
    Little Stories of Hurt, Little Songs of Grief
    A New God Sung to Reality
    The Praise of God as Duty and Delight

    Notes
    Scripture Index
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