Surprised by Wisdom: Preaching Proverbs

Probing Proverbs with imagination and depth might be the best way for the preacher to counter our society's deadly propensity to reduce religion to “spirituality,” abstracted from concrete social and economic practices and our relationship with the material world. The contemporary crisis of wis...

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Main Author: Davis, Ellen F. 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. 2009
In: Interpretation
Year: 2009, Volume: 63, Issue: 3, Pages: 264-277
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Summary:Probing Proverbs with imagination and depth might be the best way for the preacher to counter our society's deadly propensity to reduce religion to “spirituality,” abstracted from concrete social and economic practices and our relationship with the material world. The contemporary crisis of wisdom—the proliferation of powerful knowledge divorced from godly wisdom—sets us fundamentally at odds with the structure of the universe: “yhwh by wisdom established the earth” (Prov 3:19).
ISSN:2159-340X
Contains:Enthalten in: Interpretation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/002096430906300305