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Saturday, July 5, 2025

Brueggemann - died June 5, 2025 (Traverse City, Michigan)

Walter Brueggemann

scholar of prophetic imagination

OBITUARY: CT (Christianity Today)

was 92 at his death in Michigan last month.

The author of more than 100 books was

professor emeritus at Columbia Theological

Seminary, Decatur, Georgia until his retirement

in 2003.  Though ordained, he never served

a church but was much sought after as a preacher

and lecturer.  His 1978 book The Prophetic Imagination

sold more than a million copies and is frequently

used in seminary classes on The Book of the 12

and major prophets (Hebrew Bible).  He was

text-focused and resisted dominant modes of

biblical interpretation in favor of bringing

readers to the Text and to the Word of God.

christianitytoday.com/2026/06/died-walter-brueggemann-

prophetic-imagination-old-testament/

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