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Book Review: Grace Abounds: God’s Abundance Against the Fear of Scarcity by Walter Brueggemann

Walter Brueggemann’s Grace Abounds  (Westminster John Knox, 2024) is a powerful and deeply resonant exploration of the tension between the pervasive human fear of scarcity and the boundless abundance of God’s grace. With his signature blend of incisive biblical exegesis, theological depth, and social analysis, Brueggemann offers a timely message for a world gripped by anxiety over resources, competition, and survival. This book is both a profound ecclesiology and a practical guide for faithful living, calling the church to embody a countercultural vision of trust, generosity, and abundance under the Lordship of God. At its heart, Grace Abounds addresses a foundational human struggle: the "smallness of mind" that fosters envy, competition, and self-preservation. Against this, Brueggemann presents a God who lavishly provides and invites us to live in a way that reflects this trust. As he writes, “Do not participate in the anxiety system that is grounded in a mistaken notion o...

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