The 2015 Fuller Forum explored the themes of justice, grace, and law and how each shapes our understanding of the church’s relationship with God and the church’s ministry in the world. Joined by Fuller scholars and other guests, renowned Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann, featured as the conference’s keynote speaker. Author of over a hundred books, he is the William Marcellus mcPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary.
Walter Brueggemann speaks about God being a dialogic partner actively engaged with his people, and how this relationality shapes our understanding of God’s justice, grace, and law.
+ WatchWalter Brueggemann presents the idea of two kinds of justices—predatory justice from above and transformative justice from below—and contended that the Bible depicts a contestation between both.
+ WatchWalter Brueggemann explores God’s restorative grace and the ways it necessitates and energizes the restored community’s witness, worship, and work of justice.
+ WatchAt the 2015 Fuller Forum, Walter Brueggemann and Amos Yong discussed the themes of grace and justice in a Q&A moderated by Mark Labberton.
+ WatchWalter Brueggemann presents the law of Yahweh not as static and totalizing but as an ongoing conversation between God and God’s people.
+ WatchMichael McBride, pastor of The Way Christian Center, talks about the role the church has to advocate for and participate in movements of racial justice, particularly by redeeming broken systems.
+ WatchVarious scholars lead breakout sessions during the 2015 Fuller Forum.
+ WatchWalter Brueggemann, renowned author and Old Testament scholar, speaks about engaging the Biblical text with an artistic interpretive lens that resists universal generalizations, then participates in a Q&A with the Fuller community.
+ ListenThe 2015 Fuller Forum explored the themes of justice, grace, and law and how each shapes our understanding of the church’s relationship with God and the church’s ministry in the world. Joined by Fuller scholars and other guests, renowned Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann, featured as the conference’s keynote speaker. Author of over a hundred books, he is the William Marcellus mcPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary.