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1 Prophetic Ministry: A Sustainable Alternative Community Walter Brueggemann The formation of a religious community, the practice of a dis- ciplined spirituality, and the embrace of prophetic faith are dimen- sions of Christian obedience that converge and cannot be separated from each other. While my theme concerns the formation of religious community, i.e., an ecclesiological matter, I make my beginning with prophetic faith, for that is the most likely entry point in the conversa- tion for my discipline of Old Testament study. Prophetic faith is a voice for life in a world which is bent on death. Prophetic faith is a risky practice of sanity in a world trapped in mad- ness. I stake out such a radical, one-sided posture, because I imagine the call of the gospel today to be urgent, subversive, and therefore dangerous, in the face of a society in pursuit of its own destruction. In my consideration of prophetic faith, I will focus on the person, tra- dition, and book of Jeremiah as an exemplar.' 1 I settle on Jeremiah in the recognition that Jeremiah faced and entered into a situation not unlike our own. In his situation, the require- ments and possibilities of
Horizons in Biblical Theology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1989
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