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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... alternative sovereignty in a community of compassion resistant to the forces of coercion from within and without.” ANDREW T. LINCOLN, Portland Professor of New Testament, University of Gloucestershire “In my nearly twenty-five years of ...
... alternative sovereignty in a community of compassion resistant to the forces of coercion from within and without.” ANDREW T. LINCOLN, Portland Professor of New Testament, University of Gloucestershire “In my nearly twenty-five years of ...
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... alternative vision of reality, animating a way of life that was subversive to the ethos of the Roman empire. We believe that Paul's letter to the Colossians will only be read with integrity in our time when the radical vision of ...
... alternative vision of reality, animating a way of life that was subversive to the ethos of the Roman empire. We believe that Paul's letter to the Colossians will only be read with integrity in our time when the radical vision of ...
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... alternative imagination and alternative way of life is formed and sustained in the context of community. So while this book began in our community with each other and with our friend Tom Wright, it immediately encompasses a larger ...
... alternative imagination and alternative way of life is formed and sustained in the context of community. So while this book began in our community with each other and with our friend Tom Wright, it immediately encompasses a larger ...
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... alternative! The modernist pretense to have objectively grasped a total reality invariably results in a totalitarian social practice. Failing to recognize that human knowledge is always constructed in particular historical contexts ...
... alternative! The modernist pretense to have objectively grasped a total reality invariably results in a totalitarian social practice. Failing to recognize that human knowledge is always constructed in particular historical contexts ...
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... alternative imagination—is no human achievement; it is a divine gift. This hope isn't extinguished by living in “the future of a shattered past,” precisely because it is a hope rooted in a story of kept promises, even at the cost of ...
... alternative imagination—is no human achievement; it is a divine gift. This hope isn't extinguished by living in “the future of a shattered past,” precisely because it is a hope rooted in a story of kept promises, even at the cost 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 |
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
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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