{"product_id":"unwavering-faithfulness-9780664267292","title":"Unwavering Faithfulness","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalter Brueggemann and Brent Strawn lead readers through the prophetic book of Isaiah, moving between looming predictions of punishment against Israel for breaking covenant with God and exultation in the ultimate hope of Israel's restoration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnwavering Faithfulness\u003c\/i\u003e provides an accessible guide to Isaiah, helping contemporary readers grasp both the uncompromising demands of God's holiness and God's unshakable faithfulness to covenant relationship and desire to bring about a good future for God's people. Isaiah is a dramatic book of prophecy and oracles that sweeps through the histories of Israel's kings and dealings with surrounding nations, levying judgment but also offering the hope of restoration, blessing, and shalom. This great prophet's words are a lot to take in. Israel is taken to task for exploiting the poor and seeking security in political treaties and the human economy rather than in the fidelity of God. Ignoring the call of covenant to enact economic justice and righteousness for neighbors, Israel experiences the holy rule of God as working through geopolitical events that lead to the destruction of Jerusalem. But Isaiah doesn't rest here, and \u003ci\u003eUnwavering Faithfulness\u003c\/i\u003e forecasts ahead to the promise of Israel's return to Jerusalem from the Babylonian exile and to the imagination of the early church, inspired by the poetry of Isaiah to place its hope in Jesus the Messiah.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ultimacy of God's governance and faithfulness in the swirl of global political chaos anchors this Bible study, helping readers grasp Isaiah's vision of the covenantal fidelity of the Lord who wills newness and redemption amid failed histories. This book will help readers seek to identify the movement of God in the midst of the natural consequences of forsaking the holy way on a global scale (climate disaster and the self-destruction of fearful, power-mongering governments) and to continue to look for the in breaking of God's shalom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestions for reflection and discussion are included at the end of each chapter, making this book ideal for individual or group study.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrueggemann, Walter:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter Brueggemann\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eSabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now, \u003ci\u003eInterrupting Silence: God's Command to Speak Out\u003c\/i\u003e, and Truth and Hope: Essays for a Perilous Age.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrawn, Brent A.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrent A. Strawn\u003c\/b\u003e is D. Moody Smith Distinguished Professor of Old Testament and Professor of Law at Duke University. Previously, he was the William Ragsdale Cannon Distinguished Professor of Old Testament at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Old Testament Is Dying: A Diagnosis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRecommended Treatment and The Old Testament: A Concise Introduction.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Westminster John Knox Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51734886285586,"sku":"9780664267292","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_42ce3313-2503-4410-a949-39caf89c2ca6.jpg?v=1763491642","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/unwavering-faithfulness-9780664267292","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}