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Sabbath as Resistance, New Edition with Study Guide: Saying No to the Culture of Now Kindle Edition

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In this new edition that includes a study guide, popular author Walter Brueggemann writes that the Sabbath is not simply about keeping rules but rather about becoming a whole person and restoring a whole society. Brueggemann calls out our 24/7 society of consumption, a society in which we live to achieve, accomplish, perform, and possess. We want more, own more, use more, eat more, and drink more. Brueggemann shows readers how keeping the Sabbath allows us to break this restless cycle and focus on what is truly important: God, other people, all life. Perfect for groups or self-reflection, Sabbath as Resistance offers a transformative vision of the wholeness God intends, giving world-weary Christians a glimpse of a more fulfilling and simpler life through Sabbath observance.

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"If you are experiencing anxiety or work pressures, this book reads almost like a manifesto for a counter culture to challenge the norm. It will give you a taste for Brueggemann, whose focus was always on supporting preachers and pastors rather than writing for academics. Highly recommended." – Preach Magazine

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Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is the author of dozens of books, including Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now, Interrupting Silence: God's Command to Speak Out, and Truth and Hope: Essays for a Perilous Age.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Westminster John Knox Press; Revised edition (October 13, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 13, 2017
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Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary. He is the world's leading interpreter of the Old Testament and is the author of numerous books, including Westminster John Knox Press best sellers such as Genesis and First and Second Samuel in the Interpretation series, An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination, and Reverberations of Faith: A Theological Handbook of Old Testament Themes.

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Addresses a Real Issue But Will Not Lead to a Healthy Sabbath
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Addresses a Real Issue But Will Not Lead to a Healthy Sabbath
This book started strong with a good analysis of how Israel’s deliverance from the slavery relates to the Sabbath. I would encourage anyone to read that section, but beyond that, the book is not really about the Sabbath. It merely uses the Sabbath as a platform for a thinly veiled political stance, even quoting Marx.In reality, the book is a study of socioeconomics and materialism, which is vital to discuss in the Western church—it’s a major stumbling block for believers, but this book is more about our relationship to consumerism than our relationship with God.Because of this, some of the biblical arguments seem stretched, and the solid exegesis that is present becomes repetitive, returning to the same point again and again.There’s next to nothing in this book about a healthy way to approach the Sabbath, pursuing a closer relationship with Christ in the Sabbath, or the benefits of God’s design for resting in and with Him during the Sabbath.Although it addresses a real concern in the church, this book will not lead you to experiencing a healthy Sabbath.NOTE: This book was a gift. I did not purchase it from Amazon.
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Mamasu
5.0 out of 5 stars Reading for a Lenten group
Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2024
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Short and book with a lot of thought provoking ideas. The study guide helps a lot .
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Janixa
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2022
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This book is part of my curriculum for my Masters program. It was well written and the Sabbath was thoroughly explained.
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Chadwick Smith
4.0 out of 5 stars very insightful and relevant
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2020
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The year 2020 has given us plenty of reasons to stress out. This book helps guide the reader on a path back to God, into His peace and reassurance. But also ties that into "loving thy neighbor" and social responsibilities. It connects 21st-century life to ancient Jewish times. Very insightful and full of wisdom.

I would have given 5 stars except for one thing. My only concern was the sometimes-liberal approach to the Bible, which is not my preference. Calling some Old Testament verses "sexist" was uncalled for. I feel, if you're gonna say something like that, you need to at least support the claim. Stating that in passing, and unrelated to the wider point being made, was off-putting for someone like me. It felt very culturally biased. Whereas the rest of the book draws out universal and timeless values.

For conservative Christians, I highly recommend this book, with the one caveat stated above. You have to be willing to ignore or reject the rare statement like that, while receiving the bigger message. It is a good message overall and remains faithful to scripture on the main point about Sabbath and its application to personal and social life. I have been blessed; I am now beginning to recognize that Consumption and Production are all part of the same activity, which pulls me away from God if I don't intentionally and regularly resist it.

Finally, it provides an antidote to conversative American Christians' tendency to buy into free-market capitalistic ideologies and mix them with our faith (myself included). While capitalism can be a wonderful thing, if done right, we too often mix it in with the Kingdom of Heaven. Let's separate the two, for God's sake. Let's keep him higher than all other things. Let us return to Him in our hearts and let worldly things slip away into second place or even lower. Our devotion demands it.
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The Beetle
5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely read worthy
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2020
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This book is a gem. I picked it up in a preparation for a study for a series I’m going to preach on the 10 Commandments. I was not disappointed. Redundancy is at a minimum in word pictures of bound. He has profound insight that Treece is the root of the fourth commandment in the first one. As Tim Keller has says we don’t break the other nine commitments until we break the first, that Of idolatry. I love the way he melted together the first and the fourth commandment and then also tied the fourth commandment into the final six. Masterful job. I will never think about the Sabbath the same way.
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Dabney H.
5.0 out of 5 stars I recommend this book to everyone who struggles to rest and ...
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2018
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We read this book as a Lenten book study in our church. It is a short book full of thought provoking ideas. The author writes about the importance of Sabbath in this busy world in which we live and the resistance of Sabbath by society. In addition he provides a fascinating look at the Ten Commandments in the light of Sabbath. I recommend this book to everyone who struggles to rest and still the mind; isn't that all of us?
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Kathryn Stiles
5.0 out of 5 stars This book changed my worldview
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2019
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A small book but extremely powerful. Demonstrates the truth of Creator God who established an economy of grace and rest for all. I am learning to keep the Sabbath again and enjoying it immensely. God is good!
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Deon Strydom
5.0 out of 5 stars Sabbath in modern clothes
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2019
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Brueggemann does an excellent job of bringing the 10 commandments, especially the 4th on Sabbath keeping, into a modern context. I found his links with our anxiety driven society especially helpful.
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Peter Dubbelman
4.0 out of 5 stars A Familiar Theme with a Twist
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2019
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In this book, Walter Brueggemann lays out a familiar Sabbath theme within Evangelicalism and elaborates on an unfamiliar one. Both of them, for Brueggemann, contain an economic tone that helps neighbors recenter their community in God. The book’s familiar theme is well summed up by the following quotes:

“[Sabbath] declares in bodily ways that … we will not be defined by busyness and by acquisitiveness and by the pursuit of more, in either our economics or our personal relationships or anywhere in our lives. Because our life does not consist in commodity” (31–32).

“In U.S. society, largely out of a misunderstood Puritan heritage, Sabbath has gotten enmeshed in legalism and moralism and blue laws and life-denying practices that contradict the freedom-bestowing intention of Sabbath” (20).

“Those who participate in [Sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to the awareness that life does not consist in frantic production and consumption that reduces everyone else to threat and competitor” (27–28).
The book’s unfamiliar theme hinges upon a portion of the fourth commandment that requires that others “may rest as you do” (Deut 5:14). Here Sabbath keeping is the quintessential worship act of neighborliness and an invitation into the awareness of the exploitation of others:

“The fourth commandment on Sabbath compels rest for all members of the household, all members of the community, human and animal. As such it looks forward to the last six commandments that concern neighborly relations (Exodus 20:12–17). The fourth commandment anticipates a peaceable household and neighborhood and sets out a discipline and limit that will serve that peaceable news. The six commandments that follow on neighborliness reach a climactic point in the tenth commandment on coveting that is presented, perhaps, as the act that is the ultimate destruction of the neighborhood, for coveting generates mistrust and sets neighbor against neighbor” (69).

“Sabbath is the great day of equality when all are equally at rest.… This one day breaks the pattern of coercion, all are like you, equal—equal worth, equal value, equal access, equal rest” (40–41).

“Sabbath represents a radical disengagement from the producer-consumer rat race of the empire. The community welcomes members of any race or nation, any gender or social condition, so long as that person is defined by justice, mercy, and compassion, and not competition, achievement, production, or acquisition.… [Sabbath is] work stoppage with a neighborly pause for humanness” (54–55).

Sabbath is “the pause that refreshes … transforms” (45); it helps reconnect worship with “the well-being of the neighborhood and the protection of the vulnerable” (61; cf. 63, 83–85). For the believer is better defined by the quality of their relationships and the well-being of the neighborhood than the quantity of their possessions (124; cf. 69–89).

“Sabbath is the practical ground for breaking the power of acquisitiveness and for creating a public will for an accent on restraint.… an arena in which to recognize that we live by gift and not by possession, that we are satisfied by relationships of attentive fidelity and not by amassing commodities” (84–85).
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D. Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars Accessible yet deep
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 26, 2021
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This was my read of Brueggeman. I prepared myself for a difficult but rewarding read. Only one of those assumptions was correct.

A remarkably easy read without sacrificing depth. A refreshingly different but very helpful approach to sabbath

Well worth it
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José Arreola
5.0 out of 5 stars Sabbath as Resistance
Reviewed in Mexico on January 14, 2018
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Hasta donde recuerdo, todos los libros de Brueggemann han sido de una calidad superior. Este libro no decepciona. De hecho, descubrí que ya tenía el volumen sin Study Guide. Pero ahora que lo leí con el guía me pareció incluso un libro superior. Dios nos conceda aprender de la teología del sábado como debe escucharse adecuadamente.
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Marcos Torres
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely stunning
Reviewed in Australia on December 21, 2020
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This is the best book I have ever read on the Sabbath because it goes beyond religious arguments and focuses on social, humanitarian, and justice perspectives that gives the day deep relevance and existential significance.

Recommend it!
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Leonora Becket
5.0 out of 5 stars A great thought provoking and counter-cultural read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2018
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Very thoughtful content explained clearly with practical ways of resisting trends in our current consumer culture.
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