Author: Luis Goytisolo File Type: pdf Luis Goytisolos novel, 360 Diary, constitutes a reflection on the act of creativity. The novel is in the form of a diary that begins on the authors birthday and concludes one (lunar) year later. Each day of the week is identified with a theme such as the seasons the broad movements of history the biological and psychological cycles of all living beings and time itself. The author of the diary contemplates and acts upon all the various kinds of knowledge that have come together in his person, either through study, experience, or intuition. Just as in his most well-known novel, Antagonia, Goytisolo uses 360 Diary to explore the human condition and the diverse ways in which the individual comes to know and understand, in whatever limited way, the possibilities of human existence. The totality is a comprehensive, 360 view of contemporary life by an artist employing everything he has learned so as to communicate with the reader willing to follow him in his reflections and, ideally, use them as a starting point for hisher own ideas.**

Author: Walter Brueggemann File Type: epub No scholar of this generation has had a greater fire in his bones for communicating the word of God than Walter Brueggemann. These essays on Jeremiah exemplify his insistence that criticism should lead to interpretation, and remind us again why prophets like Jeremiah still matter in the 21st century. - John J. Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament, Yale Like Fire in the Bones is a gift to the churches and to anyone interested in prophetic literature with its harsh rhetoric, blazing visions, and demanding yet merciful God. Jeremiah may have had fire in his bones, but Brueggemann sets fires with his pen. He shows how Jeremiah speaks into the abyss of historical catastrophe with speech that matches experience. He underlines the disputatious political character of theological speech. He reiterates Jeremiahs call to covenant loyalty even in the face of religious and government forces that suppress and silence words of life. He illuminates Jeremiahs bare-boned hope for a world in the thrall of empire and social amnesia. If ever there was need for imaginative rereading of Jeremiah and of the texts of common life, it is now. At this, Brueggemann is a master. - Kathleen M. OConnor, William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary Jeremiah, the longest book in the Bible, is neglected much too often by preacher and teacher alike. That neglect is due, in significant part, to the prophets often-sharp words that strike too close to home, in his own generation and in ours. It is telling that the prophet Jeremiah, the focus of these essays that span much of Walter Brueggemanns prophetic ministry, has been in his head and heart for such a long time. Again and again, Brueggemanns own words have mirrored Jeremiah to us, and the times in which we presently live could profit from hearing them again. - Terence E. Fretheim, Elva B. Lovell Professor of Old Testament, Luther Seminary **