For each of the following questions, choose the best answer. If you answer incorrectly, try again. You will be given partial credit for answering on the second try. There are only eight questions in this set. You will see all of them in this session.
According to Brueggemann, we are all children of the “royal consciousness”, the way of thinking of those who have power. One task of prophetic ministry is to challenge that consciousness. In attempting to envision a new reality which challenges the values of the “royal consciousness,” we need to ask first whether such a new reality is
Brueggemann argues that the “royal consciousness” brings an absence of pathos and that one of the primary roles of the prophet is to bring back pathos. Which of the following best represents what he means by pathos? (None of these is totally adequate.)
Which of the following best describes the first task of the prophet according to Brueggemann?
Which prophet does Brueggemann see as the clearest model of the prophetic imagination and ministry in regard to the issue of pathos?
Once disaster has arrived, the prophet's task becomes that of bringing hope for a new beginning, according to Brueggemann. This task of bringing hope, he says, has three parts to it. Which of the following is not one of those parts?
Which prophet does Brueggemann see as the clearest example of the prophet who uses amazement to bring “hope to kings in despair”?
According to Brueggemann, we are all children of the “royal consciousness”, the way of thinking of those who have power. One task of prophetic ministry is to challenge that consciousness. In attempting to envision a new reality that challenges the values of the “royal consciousness,” we need to ask first whether such a new reality is
The birth story of Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel presents Jesus' arrival as a challenge to the royal establishment. Which of the following is a part of the way it accomplishes this?