"Brueggemann, for decades one of our leading interpreters of Jeremiah, here conducts a homiletical experiment, considering how the book preaches and what it says to the preaching task. The experiment is a resounding success as Brueggemann, attentive to how Jeremiah is a "multivoiced meditation" on the abyss of exile--an extended Holy Saturday--considers three traumas pertinent then and now: the loss of Jerusalem, the crucifixion of Jesus, and the demise of American chosenness. Brueggemann may call his work an "old-fashioned reading" of Jeremiah, intended "to serve an old-fashioned notion of preaching," but do not be fooled. In his hands, everything old is new again!" --Brent A. Strawn, professor of Old Testament and professor of Law, Duke University
"Turning to the Prophet who speaks most directly to our contemporary moment, this master exegete demonstrates what the church has largely forgotten over the last century: Imaginative, biblically shaped preaching is the most consequential form of Christian utterance. Attentive to Jeremiah, Jesus, and Paul, Brueggemann offers practical guidance for preachers desperate to speak the truth and the hope that matters." --Ellen F. Davis, Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology, Duke Divinity School and author of Opening Israel's Scriptures
"Walter Brueggemann's Preaching Jeremiah is as daring, imaginative, and counter-cultural as the text it explicates. This "experiment in homiletics" will delight not only preachers and poets but any serious student of the Bible and practitioner of social justice." --Louis Stulman, professor of religious studies and author of The Prose Sermons of Jeremiah
