Prophetic Spirituality

Introduction

 

Fifteen of the books in the Old Testament are the oracles and stories of prophets, embellished often by later additions.  What is authentic spirituality for the prophets?  What threatens that spirituality?  Are there any correlations we can make between the ancient visions of judgment and redemption and our own world?   How do we make those correlations?

Notes

 

Reading

• Scripture: Amos 4-9; Ezekiel 1-5; 36:1-37:14
  
  
• Secondary: Bruegemann, The Covenanted Self, 48-58, 99-107

 

Notes

Under construction.

Bibliography

 

Bergman, Susan, ed.  Martyrs: Contemporary Writers on Lives of Modern Faith.  Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1996.

 

Boff, Leonardo.  The Lord’s Prayer: The Prayer of Integral Liberation, trans. Theodore Morrow.  Maryknoll: Orbis, 1983; Portuguese orig. 1979.

 

Brown, Robert McAfee.  Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes.  Philadelphia: Westminster, 1984.

 

Brueggemann, Walter.  The Prophetic Imagination.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978.

 

Donahue, John R.  What Does the Lord Require? A Bibliographic Essay on the Bible and Social Justice, Studies in the Spirituality of the Jesuits 25.  St. Louis: The Seminar on Jesuit Spirituality, 1993.

 

Freire, Paolo.  Pedagogy of the Oppressed.  New York; Seabury, 1970.

 

Heschel, Abraham Joshua.  The Prophets.  New York: Harper & Row, 1962.

 

Johnson, Elizabeth A.  Friends of God and Prophets: A Feminist Theological Reading of the Communion of Saints.  New York: Continuum, 1998.

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