Colossians Remixed: Subverting the EmpireInterVarsity Press, 27 mai 2015 - 258 pagini Have we really heard the message of Colossians? Is this New Testament book just another religious text whose pretext is an ideological grab for dominating power? Reading Colossians in context, ancient and contemporary, can perhaps give us new ears to hear. In this innovative and refreshing book Brian J. Walsh and Sylvia C. Keesmaat explain our own sociocultural context to then help us get into the world of the New Testament and get a sense of the power of the gospel as it addressed those who lived in Colossae two thousand years ago. Their reading presents us with a radical challenge from the apostle Paul for today. Drawing together biblical scholarship with a passion for authentic lives that embody the gospel, this groundbreaking interpretation of Colossians provides us with tools to subvert the empire of our own context in a way that acknowledges the transforming power of Jesus Christ. |
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... God will be pleased.” BYRON K. BORGER, Hearts & Minds Bookstore, Dallastown, Pennsylvania “This creative and intellectually stimulating understanding of Colossians offers both a fresh reading of the letterin its first-century setting ...
... God will be pleased.” BYRON K. BORGER, Hearts & Minds Bookstore, Dallastown, Pennsylvania “This creative and intellectually stimulating understanding of Colossians offers both a fresh reading of the letterin its first-century setting ...
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... God— with whom I must be in relation.” This confession had a familiar ring to it. Didn't the Gen X author Douglas Coupland offer a similar confession near the end of his book Life After God? “My secret is that I need God—that I am sick ...
... God— with whom I must be in relation.” This confession had a familiar ring to it. Didn't the Gen X author Douglas Coupland offer a similar confession near the end of his book Life After God? “My secret is that I need God—that I am sick ...
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... God's redemption of all of creation in Christ found in a text like Colossians—will make common cause with such violence and oppression. Of course, all of this creates profound uncertainty for human history-forming praxis. Alisdair ...
... God's redemption of all of creation in Christ found in a text like Colossians—will make common cause with such violence and oppression. Of course, all of this creates profound uncertainty for human history-forming praxis. Alisdair ...
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... God. He needs a source, an origin, a meaning beyond himself to give direction and accountability to his life. Another way to look at this is to say that in a world of imperial control, in a world that is suffused with the rhetoric ...
... God. He needs a source, an origin, a meaning beyond himself to give direction and accountability to his life. Another way to look at this is to say that in a world of imperial control, in a world that is suffused with the rhetoric ...
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... God who might be able to disarm and demythologize this beast. But that doesn't mean that he is reading Scripture ... God, but the question is, which god does he want? And on whose terms will he accept this god? You see, the danger of ...
... God who might be able to disarm and demythologize this beast. But that doesn't mean that he is reading Scripture ... God, but the question is, which god does he want? And on whose terms will he accept this god? You see, the danger of ...
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4 Contexted Fruitfulness in the Shadow of Empire | 65 |
PART TWO Truth Remixed | 77 |
5 Subversive Poetry and Contested Imagination | 79 |
PART THREE Praxis Remixed | 145 |
9 An Ethic of Secession | 147 |
10 An Ethic of Community | 169 |
11 An Ethic of Liberation | 201 |
12 A Suffering Ethic | 220 |
Bibliography | 234 |
Author Index | 247 |
Subject Index | 249 |
6 Regimes of Truth and the Word of Truth | 96 |
7 What Is Truth? | 115 |
8 Faithful Improvisation and Idolatrous Lies | 132 |
Scripture Index | 254 |
More Titles from InterVarsity Press | 257 |
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Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire Brian J. Walsh,Sylvia C. Keesmaat Previzualizare limitată - 2004 |
Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire Brian J. Walsh,Sylvia C. Keesmaat Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2005 |
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