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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Pagina 7
... believe that Paul's letter to the Colossians will only be read with integrity in our time when the radical vision of Christian faith encountered in this text engenders a similarly alternative way of life in our midst. There is a sense ...
... believe that Paul's letter to the Colossians will only be read with integrity in our time when the radical vision of Christian faith encountered in this text engenders a similarly alternative way of life in our midst. There is a sense ...
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... believe that I am totally in control of my life. There is a higher power—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 ...
... believe that I am totally in control of my life. There is a higher power—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 ...
Pagina 21
... believe and the way we believe it. The term postmodern keeps being tossed about as a possible explanation for our present confusion and malaise. But what does it mean? The attempt to find an answer to this question can be frustrating ...
... believe and the way we believe it. The term postmodern keeps being tossed about as a possible explanation for our present confusion and malaise. But what does it mean? The attempt to find an answer to this question can be frustrating ...
Pagina 30
... believe that economic growth is the driving force of history? And on what basis, other than a perversely blind, self-interested faith, can we justify the assumption of global capitalism that it is permissible to ruin one place or ...
... believe that economic growth is the driving force of history? And on what basis, other than a perversely blind, self-interested faith, can we justify the assumption of global capitalism that it is permissible to ruin one place or ...
Pagina 33
... believe in the conceits of liberalism but have nowhere else to go.”50 Economic globalization is late capitalism without the framework of a modernist ideology of progress to provide it a narrative foundation and ethical direction ...
... believe in the conceits of liberalism but have nowhere else to go.”50 Economic globalization is late capitalism without the framework of a modernist ideology of progress to provide it a narrative foundation and ethical direction ...
Cuprins
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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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