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Reading scripture as a political act : essays on the theopolitical interpretation of the Bible /

Although scholars increasingly understand Scripture to contain political dimensions and implications, the interpretation of Scripture is often marginalized in most scholarly discussions of political theology. Reading Scripture as a Political Act takes a step toward remedying this situation by explor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Tapie, Matthew A. (Editor ), McClain, Daniel Wade (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2015]
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • 1. Empires and enemies : re-reading lament as politics / Rebekah Eklund
  • 2. The politics of friendship in the Gospel of John / Peter Dula
  • 3. "Before the eyes of their own God" : Susanna, rape law, and testimony in City of God 1.19 / Melanie Webb
  • 4. The politics of fasting in Basil of Caesarea / Mark DelCogliano
  • 5. Contemplating Genesis 1 as a political act in late antiquity / Daniel Wade McClain
  • 6. The apocalyptic figure of Francis's stigmatized body : the politics of scripture in Bonaventure's meditative treatises /. Travis E. Ables
  • 7. "For he is our peace" : Thomas Aquinas on Christ as cause of peace in the City of Saints / Matthew A. Tapie
  • 8. War and the ethics of evangelization : the Great Commission in Sixteenth-century Spanish political thought ./ David M. Lantigua
  • 9. The unexceptional king : political theology in Shakespeare's Richard II / Anthony D. Baker
  • 10. Ressourcement and resistance : la nouvelle theologie, the fathers, and the Bible, against fascism / Kevin L. Hughes
  • 11. Inhabiting scripture : Wesley's theopolitical reading of the Bible / D. Stephen Long
  • 12. The scriptural logic of Barmen and the Jewish question / Susannah Ticciati
  • 13. The end of sacrifice : John Howard Yoder's critique of capital punishment / John C. Nugent
  • 14. A broken body reads mark / Craig Hovey.