{"id":15193,"date":"2023-08-17T15:59:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=15193"},"modified":"2023-08-18T09:13:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T13:13:55","slug":"elizabethtown-college-professor-named-editor-of-forthcoming-books-by-renowned-theologian-walter-brueggemann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2023\/08\/17\/elizabethtown-college-professor-named-editor-of-forthcoming-books-by-renowned-theologian-walter-brueggemann\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Professor Named Editor of Forthcoming Books by Renowned Theologian Walter Brueggemann"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College Professor of Sociology, Conrad Kanagy, was recently appointed editor by Fortress Press of three forthcoming books by American theologian Walter Brueggemann. Considered the most influential Old Testament scholar of the last six decades, Brueggemann is the author of more than 100 books.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrueggemann was a sociologist before becoming a theologian, and we have been shaped by the same sociological theorists,\u201d Kanagy said. \u201cI am simply humbled at this stage in my career, to have the privilege to tell Walter\u2019s story and to help amplify his amazingly relevant voice. Getting to know Walter has been a healing and restorative experience for me as a former pastor and a professor deeply committed to social justice when so much of the church and society has forgotten what the biblical text says about God\u2019s care for the marginalized.\u201d\"\"<\/p>\n

The first book, \u201cThe Emancipation of God,\u201d is available for preorder on Amazon. The second is titled, \u201cPoverty in the Promised Land.\u201d At the age of 90, Brueggeman continues to be a prolific author, writing four to five books a year.<\/p>\n

In addition to editing Brueggemann\u2019s recent works, Kanagy is releasing a biography of the theologian in September (Fortress Press), \u201cWalter Brueggemann\u2019s Prophetic Imagination: A Theological Biography\u201d and is available now for pre-order.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIn Feb. 2022 I asked Brueggemann if he had a biography I could read,\u201d Kanagy said. \u201cHe said no, so I rather audaciously asked if I could write it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Throughout the writing process, Kanagy conducted more than 50 interviews with Brueggemann and former students, colleagues, pastors, and family.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to read his life with the similar hermeneutical lens that he has long used to interpret the biblical text,\u201d Kanagy said.<\/p>\n

The biography will shed new light on Brueggemann\u2019s formation within German Evangelical Pietism in rural Missouri, and the impact of this tradition on his spiritual and psychological life.<\/p>\n

Kanagy was also chosen to speak at a special session of the Society for Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion this November in San Antonio, Texas. Brueggemann was president of the SBL in 1990 and will attend this year\u2019s annual meeting to celebrate the publication of his biography.<\/p>\n

Kanagy\u2019s upcoming book will add to his growing resume of published theological work as he wrote a four-part book series, which began with \u201cA Church Dismantled\u2013A Kingdom Restored: Why is God Taking Apart the Church?\u201d in the fall of 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College Professor of Sociology, Conrad Kanagy, was recently appointed editor by Fortress Press of three forthcoming books by American theologian Walter Brueggemann. Considered the most influential Old Testament scholar of the last six decades, Brueggemann is the author of more than 100 books. \u201cBrueggemann was a sociologist before becoming a theologian, and we have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":15197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,775],"tags":[1825,1819,1822,1818,109,197,1350,1826,1824,1827,1823,1821,1820,1817],"class_list":["post-15193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus","tag-a-theological-biography","tag-books","tag-books-about-famous-theologians","tag-brueggemann","tag-conrad-kanagy","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-old-testament-scholars","tag-poverty-in-the-promised-land","tag-sociologist","tag-the-emancipation-of-god","tag-theologians","tag-theology","tag-walter-brueggemann","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15193"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15211,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15193\/revisions\/15211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}