BOOKSPOT - MAY 2008
Jesus and the Empire by Richard Horsey and Prayers for a Priviedged People by Walter Brueggemann - two short book reviews.
The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder
by Richard Horsley
Building on his earlier studies of Jesus, Galilee, and the social upheavals in Roman Palestine, Horsley focuses his attention on how Jesus’ proclamation of the kingdom of God relates to Roman and Herodian power politics. In addition he examines how modern ideologies relate to Jesus’ proclamation.
Fortress. ISBN: 9780800634902 (2003) 178pp £9.99
Prayers for a Privileged People
by Walter Brueggemann
In ‘Prayers for a Privileged People’, this much-published author sculpts — as carefully as if with chisel — prayers on behalf of those who are people of privilege and entitlement — the haves — at an urgent moment in our society. The privileged face, on the one hand, the seduction of denial or, on the other, the temptation of despair. These prayers of wisdom and prophetic power remind us that when things go wrong , when we are afraid , and when we feel prodded by those who lack voice, there is a conversation we can have — a conversation situated amid the promises and commands of God.
Abingdon. ISBN: 9780687650194 (2008) 192pp. £10.99
