'This book can provide the preacher with ideas and images for particular sermons. It could also inspire sermon series in a war-charged ethos. This study...shows that the theme of shalom (peace) is at the heart of both testaments. Brueggemann, in a sentence that shows why he is, perhaps, the most widely read and quoted biblical expositor in our time, says that shalom is the vision that 'all of creation is one, every creature in community with every other, living in harmony and security toward the well-being of every other creature.' The author explores manifestations of this motif in passages in locations as far apart as Genesis, Leviticus, the Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Amos, Micah, Matthew, Luke-Acts, John, Galatians, Ephesians. Brueggemann believes that shalom is truly ecumenical (in the root sense of oikoumen=for the whole world): shalom is for 'haves' and not 'have-nots.''
- Homiletic