Rebuilding the Foundations

by Walter Brueggemann and John Brueggemann

Book Overview

In this unique volume, father-and-son team Walter and John Brueggemann take a close look at our fractured American society and suggest ways for improvement. Using six themes identified by some scholars as the moral foundations of societycare, fairness, liberty, loyalty, authority, and sanctitythey examine the unsustainable patterns of our contemporary society and reveal how those patterns played out in the ancient world of the Old Testament. Brueggemann...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664262651
• ISBN13: 9780664262655
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"