Can that dusty old leather bound set of scriptures speak any truth into today’s globalised, digitalised, super-sized world? Our sacred texts have come to be so many diverse things, from literal truth to a collection of wisdom.
From God’s very words transcribed to humans, to humanity’s attempt to describe the wordless. How we see it matters, for it will determine how we use it (and abuse it), and whether we allow it to have transformative power.
Let one of the world’s leading Old Testament scholars, Walter Brueggemann, and the Rev. Dr Merryl Blair re-open the scriptures for us.
To find out more about Walter Brueggemann, check out: www.walterbrueggemann.com
Merryl Blair is the Senior Lecturer in the Old Testament at Stirling Theological College. Check out: www.stirling.edu.au
Contributors to Episode Four include:
Cam Semmens – Inquisitions of a Theologaster… Faith and Fact (used with permission)
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Heatherlyn – ‘Put on Your Climbing Shoes’ (used with permission)
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Beyond Walter Brueggemann & Merryl Blair:
We asked our guests who they would point us to, whose voices would they suggest could further draw us out and stretch our perspective.
Walter Brueggemann
NT Wright – See ntwrightpage.com
Caroline Sharp – Particularly her exploration of the prophets. See divinity.yale.edu/sharp
Samuel E. Balentine – His focus being the poetry of Job. See www.upsem.edu/academics/faculty_staff/samuel_e_balentine/
Carol Newsom – The book of Daniel. See www.candler.emory.edu/faculty/faculty-bios/newsom.cfm
He also encouraged us to be on the look out for new and emerging scholarship and suggested there’s some great work coming out of Africa
Merryl Blair
Caroline Sharp – Particularly her exploration of the prophets. See
Tony Cambell – His book “An invitation to Think”
Richard Rohr – Non-dual thinking. cac.org/richard-rohr
Sandra Schneiders – gtu.edu/academics/faculty-directory/o-q/schneiders-sandra-m-jstb
Amy-Jill Levine –divinity.vanderbilt.edu/people/bio/amy-jill-levine
Terrance Fretheim – ”Suffering God” www.luthersem.edu/faculty/fac_home.aspx?contact_id=tfrethei
Walter Brueggemann!
