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Prayers for a Privileged People | 
 enlarge | Author: Walter Brueggemann
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 46744
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 183
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0687650194
Dewey Decimal Number: 242.8
EAN: 9780687650194
ASIN: 0687650194
Publication Date: April 2008
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Schism between Inner and Outter Life Not Easily Bridged June 30, 2008
Walter Brueggemann's Prayers for a Privileged People attempts to bridge the world we live in with the retreat we have in prayer life. In this sense, he looks as much to the newspaper as the Bible in choosing his prayer objects. While this approach may work in a collect, I found these prayers too impersonal for personal prayer.
Brueggemann's prayers are generally a page or two in lengthen and he organizes them into six sections: 1. Opening our hearts: The Collect, 2. Well-arranged lives, 3. The world in not safe, 4. Brick production, 5. Can we risk it? and 6. Choirs of hope. The topics he chooses are timely (e.g. Super Bowl Sunday, p. 25) and provocative (e.g. On Controlling Our Borders, p. 95).
I approached this book as a devotional. For me, devotional prayer follows a certain rhythm. My selfish heart needs to be warmed up. The ACTS format works to warm up the heart and push it into more generous realms known only to the head. By eschewing structure and rhythm Brueggemann leaves the supplicant to feel guilty and inadequate. While this may be a legitimate objective in a congregational prayer, where the typical worship service frames the collect with other forms of worship and prayer, the objective of personal prayer is more normally to build relationship with God and foster spiritual growth.
Stephen W. Hiemstra
from Abingdon Press April 16, 2008
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
In this book, 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.
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