The Collected Sermons of Walter Brueggemann, Volume Two, by Walter Brueggemann

These sermons are organized according to the church year, with a handful prepared for milestones such as graduation or marriage. They show the author’s understanding of preaching as the outcome of a layered imagination. The biblical text, itself a product of eternal and ancient imagination, has passed through a long process of leavening church tradition until it is interpreted in the servant-imagination of the preacher and offered to an assembly.  Those who hear the preacher’s words may reimagine their lives and the world around them on the basis of those words. These sermons are stamped with places and dates of delivery, pinning each one to a faith community somewhere and to what must have been a memorable Sunday morning. A scriptural index is included.