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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... imperial context of the New Testament. Its most helpful—and controversial—feature is that it demonstrates how a faithful reading of Colossians addresses head-on our contemporary idolatry of consumerism and the postmodern suspicion of ...
... imperial context of the New Testament. Its most helpful—and controversial—feature is that it demonstrates how a faithful reading of Colossians addresses head-on our contemporary idolatry of consumerism and the postmodern suspicion of ...
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... imperial realities of our time. This letter proclaimed an 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 ...
... imperial realities of our time. This letter proclaimed an 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 ...
Pagina 31
... imperial “mouths lay claim to heaven, and their tongues take possession of the earth” (Ps 73:9NIV). Empires are built on systemic centralizations of power and secured by structures of socioeconomic and military control. They are ...
... imperial “mouths lay claim to heaven, and their tongues take possession of the earth” (Ps 73:9NIV). Empires are built on systemic centralizations of power and secured by structures of socioeconomic and military control. They are ...
Pagina 32
... imperial ego, an “endlessly acquisitive conqueror and pioneer,”47 devolves into a “commodious individualism” characterized by an “unencumbered enjoyment of consumption goods or commodities.”48 This ego may not be centered on a modernist ...
... imperial ego, an “endlessly acquisitive conqueror and pioneer,”47 devolves into a “commodious individualism” characterized by an “unencumbered enjoyment of consumption goods or commodities.”48 This ego may not be centered on a modernist ...
Pagina 33
... imperial control, in a world that is suffused with the rhetoric, symbolism and images of empire, we need to have appeal to a power, a sovereignty greater than the empire, if we are to have any hope. In William's struggle with his own ...
... imperial control, in a world that is suffused with the rhetoric, symbolism and images of empire, we need to have appeal to a power, a sovereignty greater than the empire, if we are to have any hope. In William's struggle with his own ...
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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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