Abstract
The book of W. Brueggemann provides quite unusual and fresh approach to the problem of the interpretation of the Biblical texts and their application in our contemporary situation.
The title is an adoption of Paul Ricoeur's lexical pair of Word and World. The main idea is that there exist two different scripts or accounts of reality.
In one hand we have a secular account which dominates in our social-political-cultural surrounding and is marked by self-interest and consumerism. In other hand a possible supernatural counter-text shaped by the biblical values when the crossing of the borders of impossible becomes real is to be written.
To put it differently, the biblical Word invites the readers to discover an alternative of seeing the World differently and living in accordance to the claims of the biblical faith.