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The Covenanted Self: Explorations in Law and Covenant

By Walter Brueggemann
Fortress. 1999. 148 pp. Pb. $18. ISBN 0-8006-3176-5

Reviewed by Paul K. Hooker
Executive Presbyter, St. Augustine Presbytery

 

Anyone who has read the work of Walter Brueggemann knows that he is a radical, in the true sense of the word. Impatient with worn-out ideologies (either liberal or conservative) that have lost touch with the text, Brueggemann is eager to confront his readers with the transforming power of Scripture.

He can analyze with the skill of the great scholar he is; he can pound the pulpit like the passionate preacher he is; he can sing like the poet whose soul is full of the poetry of faith. He is a bitter opponent of relativism and half-truth, and he will not let his reader "off the hook" with either. In the end, he points his reader to a God who is equally loving and demanding.

Walter Brueggemann is never graceless, but he is always honest.

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