Remembering Brueggemann, by Carey Newman (Editor, Fortress Press)
The Dangerous Oddness of Walter Brueggemann (Sojourners magazine, June 2025)
Bibliographic overviews of Brueggemann's life and work:
Walter Brueggemann's Prophetic Imagination (2023)
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In this theological biography of the most prolific Old Testament student of the twenty-first century, Conrad Kanagy portrays Walter Brueggemann within the historical and cultural landscape of his formation. Kanagy follows Walter from his childhood home in Blackburn, Missouri, to Elmhurst College, Eden Theological Seminary, and Union Theological Seminary. Kanagy introduces us to the teachers who most influenced Brueggemann's personal and theological development. We observe Walter Brueggemann's unflappable energy as he moves toward the publication of The Prophetic Imagination, which will land him on the theological map of biblical studies and the American church. This breakthrough will define the rest of Brueggemann's life as he pivots among the biblical text, classroom, church, and world. The book addresses the riddle of The Prophetic Imagination's surprising emergence and enduring resilience, peering deeply into the theologian's interior life, about which little has been understood by even those closest to him. If all "theology is biography," we have missed much about Brueggemann's understanding of God by knowing so little of his person. The book's integration of his work and life within his community across nine decades reveals the most complete portrait to date of this remarkable prophet, pastor, preacher, teacher, and friend. Still, after all the careful research, much of who Walter Brueggemann is remains a mystery. He rejects reductionist portraits of himself, the biblical text, and God. He recognizes that the worlds we construct theologically are messy, perhaps because he sees the "wild and woolly" God of the world as more than a bit messy: a God who cannot be fully measured, a God who pivots just when we imagined we knew the way, and a God whose mystery and preference for openness and unpredictability are enough to keep any one of us on our toes.
If you are looking for books/articles written BY Brueggemann or Levine you should search our online catalog** or databases for their name as an AUTHOR.
If you want to find resources ABOUT Brueggemann, Levine, or their theology, search for their name as a SUBJECT.
**Luther Seminary Library Online Catalog
Online catalog to the Luther Seminary Library collection and resources held across the country.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials PLUS
Religious and theological database of citations and full-text articles and essays.
Amy-Jill Levine : a brief bio from Wikipedia
Print Books by Levine at Luther Sem Library (Also see these 5 children's books by Levine**)
Full-text articles by Levine from Atla Religion Database
Levine speaks on 'Jesus and Women" (Oct, 2023)
Levine's lecture at Luther Sem, Jan.9, 2024 (YouTube)
Amy-Jill Levine’s “God-Blog”
National Cathedral Sermon, March 2021, by Amy-Jill Levine (on YouTube)
Also see our Guide to Jewish theologians
About 200 articles on Brueggemann in the OADTL database; about 120 articles on Levine in OADTL
JSTOR ebooks: use Advanced Search mode to specify 'Book Chapters' or Articles on Brueggemann, Levine, or others. (There are over 500 book chapters and 1700 articles available on or by Brueggemann).
Project Muse database: numerous full-text articles on/by Brueggemann or Levine
