33rd G. Arthur Keough Lectures

WALTER BRUEGGEMANN
COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

“Reperforming our Best Narrative”
Walter Brueggemann is an acclaimed author and theologian. Considered one of the most influential Old Testament scholars of the last several decades, Brueggemann has authored over 100 books and articles. He is known for his method of rhetorical criticism which, as he writes in his noted work Theology of the Old Testament (1997), views the Old Testament through the lenses of “testimony, criticism, and literacy.” Brueggemann is currently the William Marcellus McPheeters professor emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary.

SEPTEMBER 20 AT 6:30 P.M., MORRISON HALL CHAPEL
Choosing an Alternative Life: “Follow me.”
This presentation will consider the ways in which the narrative of “Exodus/Wilderness/
Sinai may and must now be reenacted in the midst of our own predatory economy.

SEPTEMBER 21 AT 10:00 A.M., MORRISON HALL CHAPEL
Imagining Neighborliness: “Love thy neighbor.”
This presentation will consider the resources offered in the Book of Deuteronomy for imagining the reordering of the land of promise. The urging from that text is that we now, in our US land of promise, may again reimagine that land as a zone of neighborliness.