Sabbath As Resistance: A Review of Walter Brueggemann's Latest
Years ago I attended a Presbyterian minister 's conference for the express purpose of hearing Walter Brueggemann teach. He was the featured speaker at the conference---or should I say he was supposed to be the featured speaker. I can't remember exactly why he couldn't make it at the last minute, but I do remember being fairly bummed about it. You simply don't get too many chances to sit at the feet of one of the most esteemed Old Testament scholars in the world, after all. Brueggemann's work has in alternately inspired and convicted me whenever I've had the opportunity to study it. My personal library is stocked with more than a few of his books. But I have to say that his latest, Sabbath As Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now has had the most personal impact on my life. This short study of the Fourth Commandment is, in my opinion, the perfect Christian counterpart to Rabbi Abraham Heschel 's seminal work The Sabbath. Bru...